feat: recovery page when local gateway is unreachable #1125

whizzzkid · 2022-12-23T09:31:15Z

Addresses: #1090

In this PR:

Recovery mechanism for URLs that are not reachable because the node is offline.
Adds a button to redirect to public url.
Refactor
Recovery Page UX

Screenshot:

Recovery Process:

recovery_companion_2x.mp4

Auto-Reload:

recovery_auto-reload.mp4

whizzzkid

explainers.

whizzzkid · 2022-12-29T11:14:57Z

add-on/manifest.common.json

@@ -33,7 +33,10 @@
    "icons/png/ipfs-logo-off_38.png",
    "icons/png/ipfs-logo-off_128.png",
    "icons/ipfs-logo-on.svg",
-    "icons/ipfs-logo-off.svg"
+    "icons/ipfs-logo-off.svg",


I am not sure how this is persisted on CI, locally this gets overwritten.

@whizzzkid This file is a template used for generating final add-on/manifest.json for specific runtime: firefox, chromium, or brave (production brave used chromium, but we need this for local testing).

Generation happens in ci/update-manifest.sh (triggered during build with some env vars). It was way more complex in the past when we had beta channels, we could simplify build pipeline these days, but did not bother since it works fine.

whizzzkid · 2022-12-29T11:15:45Z

add-on/src/lib/ipfs-request.js

+      if (!state.connected && request.type === 'main_frame' && sameGateway(request.url, state.gwURL)) {
+        const publicUri = ipfsPathValidator.resolveToPublicUrl(request.url, state.pubGwURLString)
+        return { redirectUrl: `${dropSlash(runtimeRoot)}${recoveryPagePath}#${publicUri}` }
+      }


once we know we're not connected we can load the recovery page and append the public URI as a hash

whizzzkid · 2022-12-29T11:17:31Z

add-on/src/lib/state.js

+  Object.defineProperty(state, 'connected', {
+    // TODO: make quick fetch to confirm it works?
+    get: function () { return this.peerCount > offlinePeerCount + 1 }
+  })
+  Object.defineProperty(state, 'nodeActive', {
+    // TODO: make quick fetch to confirm it works?
+    get: function () { return this.peerCount !== offlinePeerCount }
+  })


Implemented the missing TODOs, will move this to a proper class later.

whizzzkid · 2023-01-05T09:26:04Z

@juliaxbow implemented v0 design, I think it's good enough for now, we can tweak the design more after we have more clarity in #1090

lidel

Thank you @whizzzkid, this is a nice quality of life improvement.

Before we merge:

add regression tests
- I think a simple modifyRequest.onBeforeRequest test in test/functional/lib/ipfs-request-gateway-redirect.test.js should suffice – we want somehting to guard the behavior so it does not break during future refactors.
- Feel free to add E2E that tests behavior of recovery page if you have time.
address minor bugs / cosmetic changes to the presentation suggested below
refine design to follow suggestion / mockup from Improve UX when localhost gateway is offline #1090 (comment) ✨

add-on/src/lib/ipfs-request.js

add-on/src/lib/helpers.js

lidel · 2023-01-11T15:07:58Z

add-on/src/landing-pages/welcome/page.js

-      ${logo({ path: logoPath, size: logoSize, isIpfsOnline: isIpfsOnline })}
-      <p class="montserrat mt3 mb0 f2">${i18n.getMessage('page_landingWelcome_logo_title')}</p>
+      ${renderLogo(isIpfsOnline)}
+      ${showTitle ? `<p class="montserrat mt3 mb0 f2">${i18n.getMessage('page_landingWelcome_logo_title')}</p>` : ''}


HTML is not rendered properly:

Thanks for checking, fixed!

add-on/src/recovery/recovery.html

add-on/_locales/en/messages.json

add-on/src/recovery/recovery.js

add-on/_locales/en/messages.json

add-on/src/recovery/recovery.js

lidel · 2023-01-11T16:43:52Z

add-on/src/lib/state.js

+  Object.defineProperty(state, 'connected', {
+    // TODO: make quick fetch to confirm it works?
+    get: function () { return this.peerCount > offlinePeerCount + 1 }
+  })


This + 1 will cause bugs when your local node is running, but your internet connection goes down. Imagine you opened something, it got cached on your IPFS node, then you shut down your laptop, go to a place without iternet and you opened laptop and restarted browser and there is a tab with localhost gateway URL.

User should be able to browse IPFS resources cached on their IPFS node when WAN is down, but due to peerCount > 0 requirement here Companion will show recovery page, forbidding them from leveraging IPFS cache.

Mind removing this and only triggering recovery when peerCount === offlinePeerCount?

you're right I did not think about that.

lidel · 2023-01-11T16:51:21Z

add-on/src/lib/state.js

+    // TODO: make quick fetch to confirm it works?
+    get: function () { return this.peerCount > offlinePeerCount + 1 }
+  })
+  Object.defineProperty(state, 'nodeActive', {


Do you know if things defined via Object.defineProperty will survive postMessage serialization present in places where we use browser.runtime.connect ?

I vaguely remember that we did not do getters like this in the past because it did not survive serialization (maybe browser fixed it these days?). That is why we read peerCount field directly (without getters) and compare it to offlinePeerCount const.

By adding these getters here, we are having two ways of doing online check in the codebase, which over time leads to errors.

My suggestion is to remove these Object.defineProperty to keep this PR scope small, and if you want to add them, do that in separate PR that also refactors all places which act on peerCount (if possible, but I feel it may not be worth the work).

It looks like it does: https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-companion/pull/1125/files#diff-cf4a768af4d2baab2a1c0a5862f50af6239b155754f4a9ea90b43e465f115d88R148

I need this to validate if we need to recover the client. However I didn't want to touch too much of this, I'm just trying to follow the adjacent code pattern. I created #1129 to tackle this again in the future.

Co-authored-by: Marcin Rataj <[email protected]>

whizzzkid · 2023-01-13T07:13:47Z

@lidel addressed your concerns, here is the new UI, cc: @juliaxbow

* main: feat: add telemetry to companion (#1117) chore: update PRIVACY-POLICY.md (#1137)

whizzzkid · 2023-01-31T02:37:20Z

add-on/src/recovery/recovery.js

+app.use(createWelcomePageStore(i18n, runtime))
+// Register our single route
+app.route('*', (state) => {
+  browser.runtime.sendMessage({ telemetry: { trackView: 'recovery' } })


@SgtPooki added view for recovery pages.

lidel

@whizzzkid thanks!
Code lgtm, but before we merge, the layout needs a few final touches to match aesthetic proposed by Julia:

Current state	Original mockup

We've added some more text, so I propose balancing things by moving some content to the left side:

left side: remove companion cube, name and version, and instead show ⚠️ icon and the first header there
- Note we already have nice orange icon for this on the welcome screen, when node is offline, just reuse it:
remove topbar (it is redundant if we have left panel)
fix css of links: they should not have underline, and should not be purple when :visited
fix css of the green button (round radius, padding, color

whizzzkid · 2023-02-03T06:38:31Z

@lidel

wasn't the mockup: Improve UX when localhost gateway is offline #1090 (comment) (with header?) I removed the header now.
Fixed other asks.

lidel

Thank you @whizzzkid, we've ended up with a really user-friendly interface! ❤️

Some notes:

I meant Improve UX when localhost gateway is offline #1090 (comment) because the top bar is only present in Options page. Welcome screen, which has the split design, does not have it and we should keep things minimalistic.
I've shortened info text and applied same link style as on Welcome page.
Let's ship it. Merging.
(thoughts on follow-up work) We can refine user experience further by showing a similar screen when a remote HTTP server fails, but it is a domain name with DNSLink, or the URL that is a public gateway. Currently, we just silently retry via local gateway, but showing intermediate page like this would be a better UX (removes surprising behavior and bugs, allows us to educate user about the value of IPFS around making websites more robust and immune to DoS or censorship).

add-on/_locales/en/messages.json

add-on/src/recovery/recovery.js

add-on/_locales/en/messages.json

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* main: feat: add telemetry to companion (#1117) chore: update PRIVACY-POLICY.md (#1137)

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