3box within Workers

[0nlyP2P]

At the moment I am migrating Totem to WebWorkers for better performance. 3box works fine, but it needs a small adjustment.

In the dependency ipfs-mini is on call to the window object, which is not available in workers.

I opened a issue (SilentCicero/ipfs-mini#14) there and submitted a working pull request (SilentCicero/ipfs-mini#15).

All you need to do is upgrading the dependency, when the request gets merged.

If someone has the same problem a not ideal but functioning workaround is to edit the line I changed in the pull request in your node_modules/ipfs-mini directory, it works, but it breaks again when you reinstall dependencies, so do not use in production.

[oed]

Hey, thanks for bringing this up! 'ipfs-mini' is not actually used in 3box anymore and should be removed!
It's imported here but never used:

3box-js/src/3id/index.js

Line 5 in 5ad3989

const IpfsMini = require('ipfs-mini')

We will remove it eventually, but if you want you can make a PR!

[oed]

Solved by #755
This will be part of the next 3box release