MVP

[rjcorwin]

• [x] Create cordova-node-plugin to host @mafintosh's shared node lib
• [x] Enable file access in Android and copy relevant node_libs.
• [x] Launch node express app
• [x] Implement basic dat API

Early demo MVP:

Original issue: https://github.com/chrisekelley/bunsen/issues/1

• [x] get bunsen webapp to send dat uri’s to the server running at http://localhost:8080
• [x] modify express server to accept POST data from bunsen webapp
• [x] review relevant API’s and see how we can adapt them for a few basic dat commands.

Architecture

The architecture we're playing around with for the proof of concept bunsen is having folks start a node server in Termux on Android which publishes an HTTP API similar to hashbase. Then the cordova app we're working on talks to that HTTP API, looks like a web browser, but has features similar to Beaker.

It would be very helpful to be compatible with the DAT Archive API.

Node DatArchive is a "nodejs API for Dat which is compatible with Beaker's DatArchive API. Useful for testing and for writing apps that work in the browser and in nodejs."

Here is a list of hashbase web API’s: https://github.com/beakerbrowser/hashbase/blob/master/docs/webapis.md

The ones I’d focus on are these:

GET /v1/archives/:archiveKey POST /v1/archives/add

Relevant links

• Node on Android build from @mafintosh https://github.com/mafintosh/node-on-android
• Can the app I'm developing send termux a command? https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/371#issuecomment-318795231

[chrisekelley]

I started a Cordova plugin that uses @mafintosh's shared node lib to provide node to the Cordova application: https://github.com/bunsenbrowser/cordova-node-plugin. This plugin launches @mafintosh's node shared lib but does little else so far. Next step: copy a simple app over and launch it. Need to sort out file access in Android.

[chrisekelley]

Brief update: https://github.com/bunsenbrowser/cordova-node-plugin now is able to launch an express server which uses dat to fetch a dat, store it on the filesystem, and sends the bunsen Cordova app a response to view the dat's index.html rendered by express.

[rjcorwin]

Stashing the Gimp art file for the logo here for lack of a better place :). noun_490710_cc-bunsen.xcf.zip

[chrisekelley]

I think we're hit MVP now, and a little more with our peers reporting. I'm closing this issue.