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fbaiodias / ipfs-chrome-station

:dizzy: Chrome extension that let's you access IPFS urls seamlessly from your local IPFS node, and take a look at its stats
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ipfs-station/kckhgoigikkadogfdiojcblegfhdnjei
MIT License
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Feature Parity with Firefox Extension #2

Open jbenet opened 8 years ago

jbenet commented 8 years ago

Hey @xicombd nice extension -- wondering if you want to reach feature parity with @lidel's https://github.com/lidel/ipfs-firefox-addon/ ?

It would be nice to control the daemon from the extension too, but doubt it can launch processes. Perhaps we can create (a) a micro service that is always on and starts + stops ipfs and listens to commands over http, (b) an installer to install everything (ipfs, microservice, + extension) nicely.

fbaiodias commented 8 years ago

Sure, I haven't touched this for a while, but will try to look into it soon :)

fbaiodias commented 8 years ago

Hey @jbenet, I've implemented the most of the firefox addon's features over the last few days. Let me know what you think :)

About controlling the deamon, it seems that chrome extensions can launch processes if the host app supports their native messaging protocol. Not sure if we should do that or just implement some service with an http api, as you were suggesting, that could be used by other projects such as the firefox addon..