Create a new web frontend

[JohannesLichtenberger]

The frontend sadly is dated, and some functionality has been missing.

Thus, we could either swap from Sapper to Svelte Kit or use for instance SolidJS (or whatever suits best).

The current frontend: https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix-svelte-frontend

A screenshot: https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix/blob/master/Screenshot%20from%202020-09-28%2018-50-58.png

[commitsovercoffee]

I'd like to work on this if svelte is used :)

[JohannesLichtenberger]

Sounds great (current code is still based on Sapper though)

[commitsovercoffee]

I'll start by getting to know the project and then begin the process of moving things over. I'm planning to do some research, but I haven't had experience with this before. Any advice you can offer would be really appreciated! I will ...

Let me know if anything else is needed. Also, please assign this to me.

[JohannesLichtenberger]

I think a lot of stuff was not finished regarding the GUI, but maybe @mosheduminer can give further insights.

[JohannesLichtenberger]

Thanks a lot for your help. Once we finish the GUI tasks (and it's a bigger project of course) and once we've implemented a few other things we can post on HN again :-)

[mosheduminer]

I'll see what I can summarize about the current state, issues, and plans thar we had.

[JohannesLichtenberger]

@commitsovercoffee did you already start? Let's keep in touch. We should keep track of individual issues in the other repo.

[commitsovercoffee]

I am unable to run it locally. npm install suggests to replace tauri dependency with @tauri-apps/cli. But I'm still not able to run it, log says tslib is missing. But it is installed, I tried with npm as well as my package manager (pacman).

I was able to create a user credential as per the README. Also, I read through the migration docs and feel someone more experienced with the project should do it. Once I get it running locally, I can work on the GUI tasks though.

[JohannesLichtenberger]

Not sure if @mosheduminer has time, but otherwise you could also start from scratch and add components or code snippets if they fit (for instance the file upload and the resource view (without the diffs) are maybe code wise ok. In general it would be awesome if we could do code reviews (that said I never found the thrill to do frontend stuff).