A browser extension is tasked with passing data from the user to the system. The system receives this data through HTTP requests and records it into the ledger. A GUI of the library is served by the system, and this can also add data to the ledger. Annotations can be added to the archive through the UI. Working copies, true to the originals, can be exported through the UI.
The browser extension is currently written in plain JS (as well as some HTML/CSS). The JS assets are bundled and moved in place by Webpack, which also provides auto-reloading of the extension in-browser.
The app and API are currently written in (mostly) Node & TypeScript. It presently exposes REST endpoints (such as /list-docs, /form, etc.) and handles the interfacing with QLDB.
An example UI is included and built in Svelte, an amazing frontend framework. It demonstrates how some of the above API endpoints can be implemented and some of the capabilities of the tool.
All the above runs with docker-compose, as well as standalone npm scripts.
Both the browser extension and the app/API are in a functioning state, though features need to be developed in sync to be considered complete.
Among other things, the browser extension is able to POST an object of the following shape to the API endpoint /form (ed: this name is terrible):
{ url: string,
title: string,
scr: Base64DataURI,
one_file: HTMLCodeString }
We're including:
[browser.tabs.captureVisibleTab](<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/Tabs/captureVisibleTab>)).