ipfs-browser-gateway

Given an IPFS multihash, print the content and try to render web page if the content is HTML.

Notice that currently deployed version in gh-page have problem loading website served with IFPS, it will only load files, videos and images.

Latest refactor is happened in exxhentai/rehentai-frontend, it will be merged here after being stabilized.

Development

This is a "create-react-app" app, so in local development just:

npm i && npm start

Deployment

To deploy this gateway by your self, replace all http://onetwo.ren/ipfs-browser-gateway/ in this repo with your own website.

You can fork it and deploy it via gh-pages: npm run deploy, or deploy it use now.

Drawback

1. The first visit to a webpage hosted in IPFS is way slower than traditional HTTP page. Though server side gateway http://ipfs.io/ipfs is slow too. (but in next version you can add a peer, thus directly connect to it)
2. Can't promise long-term cache, compared to a gateway running on a server, who can pin a file for a longer time.
3. Don't work with AJAX likes fetch API, see my comment in ipfs/public-gateway-checker.
4. May break service worker inside page delivered by ipfs (untested).

Road Map

• Refactor
• Cache

Reference

• Discussion
• Further Discussion
• JS-IPFS-Gateway
• readable-stream in SW