How to get local node instance from shell?

[mar1n3r0]

Scenario:

We have a running local daemon. A client wasm app in the browser requires an orbit-db connection. To create new OrbitDB instance we need coreapi.CoreAPI param.

// NewOrbitDB Creates a new OrbitDB instance with default access controllers and store types
func NewOrbitDB(ctx context.Context, i coreapi.CoreAPI, options *NewOrbitDBOptions) (iface.OrbitDB, error) {

We can not create a new node because ipfs can not use wasm target.

node, err := core.NewNode(ctx, nodeOptions)
if err != nil {
       return nil, err
}

// Attach the Core API to the constructed node
return coreapi.NewCoreAPI(node)

We can create a new shell though:

// Where your local node is running on localhost:5001
sh := shell.NewShell("localhost:5001")

There is a method to get the peer id: sh.ID()

Is it possible to get *core.ipfsNode instance from the shell?

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