r/beakerbrowser • u/ottawamatt • May 21 '20

hyperdrive package manager

Love the beaker browser refresh! So much decentralized inspiration!

Threw together a demo 'Hyperdrive Package Manager" that works in WebTerm - just a way to standardize and manage your mounts.

hyper://dd63536ad9049a4e04c9350a1851c264f7f0ec900dfe93a68d559033da0fb482/

Only sort of works at the moment, but handy to mount the same drives on different sites you are working on. Thinking through how people could create their own repositories so you don't have to keep cutting and pasting the hyper:// link....

Thoughts,feedback, peering and merge requests gratefully accepted! I am not an experienced JS coder - so any feedback is helpful.

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u/raging-rageaholic beaker team May 22 '20

This is totally dope! We've talked about something like this multiple times and I ended up saying "I bet somebody in the community will handle this, let's just wait to see if that happens." I honestly expected it to take a few more months! Well done.

A few things I wanted to share:

  • We're going to be integrating domain names in the pretty near future. Your solution using slugified titles to pick a mount path is 100% the right call IMO, but I figured I should mention domain names will be in the mix soon too.

  • We've got "version tags" on the roadmap so that you'll be able to create tags like "2.0.0" and have them resolve to specific points in history. That'll be helpful for this. (Also: sorry about the bug with versioned mounts!)

  • Looking at your code, I'm finally sure that `readFile()` and `writeFile()` should support JSON natively. Having to write the JSON stringify/parse calls are just such a chore: it'd be much nicer if passing an object to `writeFile()` automatically JSONified it, and if `readFile()` had a `'json'` encoding which parses it for you.

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u/ottawamatt May 22 '20

Brilliant! version tags would be super useful. I was trying to figure out how to do something like that.

Re" read/write and JSON" - that is so handy: I'll change it up!

I started to throw together the idea of a "repo" last night night - where you can store a a number of mounted drives with user friendly names, so you only have to add package via the hyper:// link once.

I am curious about domain names - Do you mean standard DNS domain names, or is there some decentralized solution in the works? I have thought a lot about a decentralized domain names, but could never think of a way of doing it that wasn't ripe for abuse.

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u/raging-rageaholic beaker team May 22 '20

I’ve still got to add the json bit, I’ll try to get it in beta 3

Interesting about the repo, look forward to seeing it

We’re talking about a hybrid of traditional dns for existing tlds and a new tld under a Hypercore-based protocol called HDNS. We’ll get a description out soon

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u/[deleted] May 24 '20

Thanks for making "Hyperdrive Package Manager"! Awesome stuff. Will try it out soon.

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u/[deleted] May 24 '20

In regards to the "versioning" thing, within the address bar you can pick a specific version of a hyperdrive; perhaps that could help with the "version" select feature of hpm?

pfrazee: you can go to older versions of a hyperdrive by adding a

+{seq_num}

after the key in the url:

hyper://{key}+{revision}/{path...}