html5 / js Web Share API PWA

[clach04]

Idea would be to write in the web client a small progressive web app (PWA) that implements the Share Web API client. This would mean users could install fro the web browser a small share application essentially what Party-Up does with significantly less code. Potentially also allows multiple share to apps to be installed (one per server, i.e. no need to edit config when switching between servers).

I believe this would be Android ONLY. I'm not sure what (if any plans) there are for Apple iOS implementations (I don;t have a device to test with).

This has the potential to replace Party-Up for some uses cases (unclear if this is a pro or a con, Party-Up works great so far with my experiments I'm not suggesting is needs to be replaced), specifically https.

Disadvantage of Web Share API is that it (understandably) requires https, Party-Up can work with plain http as well as https, so I don't think this idea would ever remove the need for Party-Up.

Unclear about basic-auth implications.

Resources

• https://dev.to/nicomartin/share-target-api-5263
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Share_API
• https://web.dev/web-share/
• https://github.com/GoogleChrome/samples/blob/gh-pages/web-share/README.md#web-share-demo
• https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/squoosh
• https://developer.chrome.com/articles/web-share-target/
• https://w3c.github.io/web-share-target/

[9001]

Dude! Had no idea this was a thing, awesome :-D

I'm definitely not an android dev so this will be way comfier / more motivating to work on, and would be great to get rid of the pain points you already mentioned (inflexibility with multiple servers and so).

I haven't looked into any of the details yet, but the first version could be dead simple (much like the android app), just allow for a plain PUT/POST upload... but would be real awesome if it was possible to do chunked/resumable uploads over up2k eventually!

And the best part is, it looks like this might actually be supported by apple devices as well -- MDN mentions that support was added into iOS 15, which just so happens to be the final version that my iPod Touch will get, so I can actually give this a try :> (in particular, should check whether the gallery app transforms/shrinks images before they get uploaded)

Mainly I'm really curious how this will be performance-wise, whether Party-Up will launch faster, or process files faster -- since I've noticed the android web-browsers have really poor performance when reading files from the filesystem during uploads, and I suspect Party-Up's performance in that sense is better, but I don't think I ever checked.

I'll take a better look at this over the weekend :>