Deploy to IPFS

[tcrowe]

Related issue #518 Deploy dapp to IPFS

What does it do?

It modifies the app and tooling to create a ⚡️ static-only export ⚡️ without any server functionality.

How to test

Previews

• ipfs test https://ipfs-app.mybit.io
• normal s3 test https://tcrowe-mybit-ipfs.commons.host/

1. git clone -b deploy-to-ipfs https://github.com/tcrowe/MyBit-Go.app
2. yarn && yarn run clean && yarn run build && yarn run export
3. ./node_modules/.bin/ipfs-deploy --no-open -p pinata -d cloudflare out ⍟

⍟ Step 3 requires some secret environment variables to run. We've communicated behind the scenes to do it.

Changes

Third-party services removed

• zeit now
• Amazon AWS

Packages removed

Strictly speaking it wasn't necessary to remove all these but they aren't being used anymore.

• aws-sdk
• civic-sip-api
• classnames
• compression
• cors
• express
• less
• lint
• multer
• node-sass-chokidar
• nodemon
• preact
• react-facebook-pixel
• react-ga
• react-router-dom
• react-twitter-conversion-tracker
• babel-watch
• compression-webpack-plugin
• enzyme
• enzyme-adapter-react-16
• extract-text-webpack-plugin
• rimraf

Upgrades

All modules put up to latest stable version. Most notably:

• nextjs@9.21 up from 8 alpha

IPFS gateway

It has a configurable way to pull IPFS files like for avatars. See ./constants/links.js#ExternalLinks.IPFS_GATEWAY_URL

Currently cloudflare-ipfs.com

Ethereum Gas price

It has a configurable way to get Ethereum Gas prices../constants/links.js#ExternalLinks.GAS_PRICE_URL

Currently https://www.etherchain.org/api/gasPriceOracle

Uploads

Previously it was uploading to AWS. Now testing.

Deploy

1. The CI/CD will build a static export instead of deploying to zeit now.
2. The nextjs static build goes to Piñata IPFS
3. CloudFlare DNS and DNS TXT record for DNSLink are set (New technology)

[cryptnotiq]

@tcrowe Please see the following issues I found.

539

540

541

[tcrowe]

It's not totally related to IPFS but it helps us move through testing to tweak and fix a few things along the way. This last patch I changed "undefined" to "Default category" here and allowed customizing the asset value.

I did see a successful upload to IPFS and then another failure so I will need to refine how it's done in the next patch.

@MyBitIO

[tcrowe]

I'm going to shelve this one for a minimal change to make this work then we can go optimize some things later.