Gateway browser backend gossip/install

hanfel-dovned commented 7 months ago

Users of the %near Urbit app should be able to create a gateway and share it with other users. Metadata about these gateways will be gossiped around the network, and users will have the option to install any of these gateways. In addition, users should be able to manually install gateways from specified pairs of [ship metadata].

This should likely be its own Gall agent within the %near desk. Better to start breaking out functionality rather than having one massive %near-handler agent. Maybe call it %near-gateways.

hanfel-dovned commented 7 months ago

The exact way that installations will work will be dependent on #20, but for the purposes of getting gossip working and this agent in place, we can fudge it with strings containing vanilla JS.

hanfel-dovned commented 7 months ago

This will be similar to how Micro does it, except:

Instead of publishing to a centralized relay when you create a new app, you'll gossip it
Instead of storing a @t encoding a simple HTML page in the ui, we'll store a url that points to the ui, which the user will then download into state once and then serve to themselves from within state

urbit / NEAR

Gateway browser backend gossip/install #17