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generativefm / play

Player interface for Generative.fm
https://play.generative.fm
MIT License
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Write a documentation explaining how to compile and use locally? #11

Closed Naereen closed 3 years ago

Naereen commented 3 years ago

Hello there, I'm a huge fan and long time user of your awesome website. I love the new interface! Congrats!

I'm very often working offline, sometimes because I want, mainly because I have to. I would love to have a localhost/generative.fm folder on my local webserver, to use generative-fm locally.

When the documentation will be written, could you please explain how to download, compile and run/install locally the project? A clear bonus could be to offer a .zip archive (in the release tab of his GitHub project) containing all the js/css files and a ready-to-work index.html file.

Thanks in advance, and good luck :smiley:.

alexbainter commented 3 years ago

Hi @Naereen, I will definitely add instructions for running the project offline. That said, I actually built the player to work offline already, so that should be working for you as long as you're using a modern browser and you don't clear your browser's data or something. You can play any generator offline as long as you played it once online, and when you use the service while you're offline, you can see which generators aren't available:

Screenshot from 2021-02-15 11 19 50 Screenshot from 2021-02-15 11 20 02

I'm about to fix a bug where trying to play a generator that isn't available will endlessly spin; otherwise it will display a message that it couldn't be played.

Eventually I'll add a way for you to save generators for offline playback without having to actually play them first, and I'll also be releasing a desktop app at some point in the future.

Naereen commented 3 years ago

Whoooo that's awesome! I had the intuition that the tool could be used offline but I didn't know you wrote such a clean UI for this specific feature! Never mind my request about installing it locally, honestly this is brilliant!

alexbainter commented 3 years ago

That's great to hear this will work for you!

PS, a fix for the endless loading spinner issue I mentioned is in v0.2.4 and on it's way out the door: https://github.com/generative-fm/play/actions/runs/569400537.

Naereen commented 3 years ago

Another solution I just discovered is webcatalog.app, and apparently I can set-up a custom app using https://play.generative.fm/browse

I'll add screenshots or a GIF showing this, just for demonstration.

Naereen commented 3 years ago

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