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orb should enable easy replication of sphere data directly from IPFS gateways #187

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cdata opened this issue Dec 10, 2022 · 0 comments
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cdata commented Dec 10, 2022

As of #182 we have a Sphere Viewer app that demonstrates using Noosphere compiled as a Wasm + TS package to pull sphere content out of an IPFS gateway and render it on the web. See this example.

However, orb does not support reading sphere data from an IPFS gateway this way, and it totally should! Let's add the capability for orb to do this.

There are a few different options that we may consider supporting, including:

  • Configure a public gateway to read blocks from
  • Configure a local IPFS node whose RPC is available to read blocks from

One potentially interesting way to approach this is for orb to start up a gateway locally for the express purpose of syncing from a local IPFS node.

Discord conversation for context: https://discord.com/channels/1003419732516552724/1003501801452085298/1049649167343042610

Q: Is it already possible to interact with that sphere you published via orb?
A: No, not yet, but that's a really good idea: we should be able to use orb to grab a copy of any sphere that we might otherwise be able to access in this viewer. Adding that to the short list.

@cdata cdata added the Enhancement New user-facing feature label Dec 10, 2022
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