This is the second round of apps and tutorials that we have worked on from this announcement. For this round we have switched up the team and created 3 more apps and tutorials.
@DirkCuys put together a basic chat app using the pubsub:// protocol that is part of IPFS. This orotocol allows you to subscribe on a topic and connect to anyone else subscribed on the topic and then publish messages that get delivered to everyone. You can see a live version of the chat here or build it yourself with the tutorial.
@DirkCuys also investigated how one could more easily upload entire folders to Agregore's built in protocol handlers and extended his initial browser development environment with this funcionality. With this demo you can upload a static website or a bunch of dependencies for a javascript project. You can see how you can add this funcionality in the new tutorial.
hyper:// Protocol HandlersWe have a new contributor: @tripledoublev aka Vincent who started off by contributing new docs for the hyper:// protocol handlers. Now developers can more easily develop apps with the protocol thanks to copy paste-able examples and easy to acess docs.
Next, Vincent created a new Drag and Drop uploader. With this you can easily add a file in Agregore and share it with your friends. Check out the published app or follow the tutorial. This can also be used as a basis for drag and drop file uploads for your own apps like photo collages or profile pictures.
As with the preview milestone we had retrospectives to see how the process worked. One of the most important lessons was to scope back when possible. Sometimes the base APIs on the web platform are more complex than one might expect and it's useful to collect more information before starting development so you can avoid having to pivot a bunch due to uncertainty. Some improvements we should look into are making it even easier to copy P2P URLs accross devices, generally improve the documentation, and see if there are improvements that could be added in the protocol handlers for uploading large files.
Next we have ou final round where we'll be publishing 4 more apps and tutorials and wrapping up work on the grant. If you're curious to have these tutorials used for your communities or to develop new ones, reach out to us by email.
Full retrospectives: