This repository was archived by the owner on Jun 30, 2023. It is now read-only.
This repository was archived by the owner on Jun 30, 2023. It is now read-only.
Benefits and Drawbacks #3
Open
Description
Some notes hanging around on my desktop:
Benefits
- Tiny bundle size
- Import just the part you want to use:
const add = require('ipfs-http-client-lite/src/add')(); await add(...)
- Uses
window.fetch
andnode-fetch
under the hood - Pass a custom
fetch
implementation - Cancelable requests with
AbortSignal
for all requests - Pubsub works in the browser
Drawbacks
- No custom classes returned from API methods
- No
CID
s - No
PeerInfo
s - No
PeerId
s - etc.
- No
- No support for passing CIDs as buffers to API methods
- Not
interface-ipfs-core
compatible- Although a
CoreAdapter
exists to allow tests to run
- Although a
- No APIs that return Node.js style streams (big bundle size inflate if include
readable-stream
)- Hence, missing:
addReadableStream
catReadableStream
- That said, APIs can consume Node.js streams because they are async iterable
- Hence, missing:
Eventually:
ipfs-http-client
could just export new CoreAdapter(ipfsLiteClient)
Metadata
Metadata
Assignees
Labels
No labels