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Geo-Web-Project / browser

An interface that uses geolocation to navigate/resolve content on the Geo Web.
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Use Local IPFS Gateway with Model Viewer #63

Open codynhat opened 1 year ago

codynhat commented 1 year ago

The browser will currently always download assets for Model Viewer from some configurable IPFS gateway. This is because Model Viewer needs to be given a src attribute with the location of the GLB file.

There are cases when loading an asset from a local IPFS node would be better. This may be a better route than using a public gateway if the asset is already stored locally. This could either be done:

  1. js-ipfs node is running in browser and has the content. Can be fetched via a service worker running a gateway. See https://github.com/ipfs-examples/js-ipfs-browser-service-worker
  2. Some other local IPFS node (Brave, IPFS Desktop, etc) has the content and is running a gateway. This is when ipfs-provider is using an HTTP client

The browser also appears to cache assets using normal HTTP caching. So it is unclear how much benefit this approach would really have.

codynhat commented 1 year ago

Using Helia is now probably the best choice https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/helia-service-worker-gateway