ENH: Allow dropping of trees in local version of auspice

[corneliusroemer]

Context

I sometimes don't have internet and would like to visualise a .nwk tree using Auspice.

When I start an auspice session with npx auspice@latest view --datasetDir . I can't seem to be able to just drop the .nwk tree.

What am I doing wrong? Is it possible to visualise nwks at all like this?

Would it be possible to enable drag-and-drop if you run auspice locally?

I know this isn't of interest to most folks since you can always go to auspice.us (if you have internet) - but this would be a nice feature for dev folks etc.

[joverlee521]

drag-and-drop of datasets is specifically a functionally of auspice.us and not Auspice. Auspice only allows dragging on additional metadata for a displayed dataset.

If you want to do drag-and-drop locally, I would recommend running auspice.us locally.

[corneliusroemer]

I see, what's the reason for that limitation?

Is it possible to npm install auspice.us?

The docs suggest a condo environment which is quite heavy.

[jameshadfield]

I see, what's the reason for that limitation?

The way I've been thinking of auspice is like so: the unmodified auspice client is the tree viewer which certain other projects import and extend. So auspice.us extends it with a custom splash page with drag-and-drop functionality. If we were to build that functionality into auspice itself then we'd be enabling it for the projects which use auspice, which is not always a good thing.

Nextstrain.org actually uses its own custom splash page so it'd wouldn't be a problem there. If there's demand for this feature I don't think it's unreasonable.