SSB Web Server

A Scuttlebot plugin for serving sites that were shared using SSB.

Setup

Use as a scuttlebot plugin:

.use(require('ssb-web-server'))

In the config object passed to Scuttlebot, you'll need to set the following values:

config.trustedServePath = path.join(__dirname, 'ui')
config.userlandServePath = path.join(config.path, 'www')

Usage

This creates two servers, at :7777 and :7778. The :7777 serves the "trusted" application (for instance, Patchwork) while :7778 serves "userland," which is files in the blob store, as well as files in the userlandServePath. (In Patchwork, the userland servepath is ~/.ssb/www.)

:7777 is given full RPC access to Scuttlebot. :7778 is given a subset of read functions, and a modified publish function which opens a permission prompt.

To open a blob, go to localhost:7778/{hash-id}. If you want to publish an HTML page to the blob-store, use html-inline to pack any linked assets into a single HTML blob, then publish with sbot blobs.add.