Ipfs-webui: v2.0.0 Release 🚢 Shipping the Revamp 🚀

[hacdias]

@olizilla I think we should add i18n to 2.1 😄

[lidel]

Hm.. why wait for 2.1? We don't need to have unified crowdsourcing website set up for 2.0 (https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/pm-ipfs-gui/issues/50), but we should ship i18 files with English locale from the start.
That way if someone wants to contribute, there would be an option to create a PR on github.

[hacdias]

I could start working on it but as we have the 'Export and reuse ipld-explorer' box to tick, I wonder how will translations work with dependencies. What's your thoughts?

[olizilla]

I agree with @lidel, let's at least get the i18n plumbing in place, and add the en-us file so we can point people at it if they ask. I'll add am item to the list in this issue.

So yes, there is a chunk of code changes needed to go an replace all the hardcoded strings with intl look ups, but we need to do that anyway, and things are settling down, so let's do it! To be considerate to the work already done for the current version of webui, we should look at the language files that exist already, and see what entries can be re-used in the revamp as is.

Bonus points for reviewing our use of language for consistency, and making sure that we're sticking to the same words for the same concept everywhere.

Double bonus points for identifying where we already have a good phrase for things in the existing webui and re-using in the new one if it still makes sense, though that is a trade-off, as we do want to take the opportunity to improve the wording, but if there are phrases that are just as good in the old version, then let's reuse the one we have translations for already.

Triple bonus points for cross referencing all the language with ipfs-companion! We probably have some already translated phrases in there that can be reused.

Leave the explore section out initially. I need to talk through the options for re-using it with you all tomorrow, and we can decide how i18n will work there after that.

[hacdias]

Sure, then we need to decide which library to use before starting working on it.

[olizilla]

@hacdias didn't you already use react-intl?

[hacdias]

@olizilla actually we did, yes. Didn't remember. I'll check how it works with external files.

[olizilla]

I'm gonna update the list with

• Upgrade all UI text to use react-intl -> i18next
• handle ipfs connection errors.

[olizilla]

We are super close now. We're waiting on the

• webui.ipfs.io subdomain to be provisioned
• #802 to land to inform users when IPFS goes away.

We're going to bump

• [ ] Integrate file share app. https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-share-files/issues/11
  due to the file upload blocker in https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-api/issues/797

...of note this will impact web-ui as well, but adding multiple files is the core feature of share, where as the webui files view is useful without support for large / multi file upload.

[olizilla]

the master branch is now revamp. Cool original flavour webui lives on at the v1 branch https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-webui/tree/v1

Next stop. Continuous Deployment of master to https://webui.ipfs.io in #806

[olizilla]

This was shipped in js-ipfs v0.33.0 and go-ipfs v0.4.18