daviddahl / wut

Libp2p / IPFS terminal-based chat

¿wut?

Serverless, IPFS, Tweetnacl-js-based chat application for terminal in an ncurses style

Goals

Things to do, ranked

• DM UI is broken and needs UX love
• Tab-completion of peer names, commands
• Tab / arrows to focus UI elements
• Social Proofs, see: https://github.com/IBM/ipfs-social-proof
• Tests
• DMs List UI
• Paste screenshots into chat
• Keys / keychain persistence
• Key stretching / BIP-39 password for keychain, configuration data.
• Keybase-style UI layout
• Encrypted file sharing via tweetnacl-js & IPFS file storage
• SES-based plugins, (See: Secure ECMAScript https://github.com/Agoric/SES-shim )
• Group encrypted chat
• Child_process for IPFS, workers for crypto? Discuss.
• Emojis
• Encrypted message persistence in IPFS via OrbitDB, js-threads?

Fixed

• Major issue: Make pubsub work outside local networks: Works now via webrtc-star server as bootstrap node
• Serverless 'lobby' chat multiple participants
• Serverless E2E encrypted chat for 2 participants (at first)
• As nerdy as possbile, hence the ncurses style

Install

Requirements: node 12, yarn

See signaling server and client configuration README.md first:

npm install -g yarn

git clone [email protected]:daviddahl/wut.git

cd wut

yarn install

node main.js

Testing

yarn test

wut's Issues

Add Tab-completion to commands

This may lead to a commands refactor as well, which is fine. The commands should probably be in its own module.

Encoding / CID Problem?

on node signal-server/server.js I get

Signaling server running at /ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/15555/ws/p2p-webrtc-star
(node:49766) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: Code 249728983 not found
    at Object.exports.getCodec (/home/jacob/projects/wut/node_modules/multicodec/src/index.js:64:11)
    at new CID (/home/jacob/projects/wut/node_modules/cids/src/index.js:82:33)
    at new CID (/home/jacob/projects/wut/node_modules/class-is/index.js:15:17)
    at mh2buf (/home/jacob/projects/wut/node_modules/multiaddr/src/convert.js:130:14)
    at Function.convertToBuffer [as toBuffer] (/home/jacob/projects/wut/node_modules/multiaddr/src/convert.js:76:14)
    at /home/jacob/projects/wut/node_modules/multiaddr/src/codec.js:96:35
    at Array.map (<anonymous>)
    at stringTuplesToTuples (/home/jacob/projects/wut/node_modules/multiaddr/src/codec.js:90:17)
    at stringToBuffer (/home/jacob/projects/wut/node_modules/multiaddr/src/codec.js:182:13)
    at Object.fromString (/home/jacob/projects/wut/node_modules/multiaddr/src/codec.js:189:10)
(node:49766) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandled-rejections=strict` (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 1)
(node:49766) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

Trying to debug this is a mess (I was also configuring webrtc-star just as you had when I saw your issues on it). Thinking your config would work as I envisioned ours architected (we're working on p2p-prolog), I still end up with more gotchas.

I'd love to hear back from you to see if this actually works based on some breaking changes that keep happening with webrtc-star. Unfortunately if we don't make any headway with libp2p we may have to simply go with Humblenet or just plain wrtc.

Establish persisted data

We will need to establish a data model for the persisted data each client will want to keep trak of including account information, keys etc...

Thi smay blle dinto how we night use a local database for archiving conversations locally and in IPFS

Persist keys

[ ] persist nacl keys
[ ] persist PeerInfo Keys for libp2p node

Tab / arrows to focus UI elements

It would be nice to be able to tab through the UI perhaps hit return for details on a specific node for details , etc

Social Proofs, see: https://github.com/IBM/ipfs-social-proof

Add the apis and the II to support social proofs for each account to ensure identity. See previous work in ipfs-social-proof.

Fix DM UI

The UI is broken right now - probably a promise is swallowing an exception somewhere.

node main.js meet error

internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:807
return process.dlopen(module, path.toNamespacedPath(filename));
^

Error: dlopen( /wut/node_modules/wrtc/build/Release/wrtc.node, 1): no suitable image found. Did find:
/wut/node_modules/wrtc/build/Release/wrtc.node: truncated mach-o error: segment __TEXT extends to 12103680 which is past end of file 1287608
/wut/node_modules/wrtc/build/Release/wrtc.node: truncated mach-o error: segment __TEXT extends to 12103680 which is past end of file 1287608
at Object.Module._extensions..node (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:807:18)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32)
at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:593:12)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:585:3)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:692:17)
at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:25:18)
at Object. (/wut/node_modules/wrtc/lib/binding.js:6:20)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32)

Establish CI Pipeline in Github actions?

Discuss.