Lighthouse: UI For Lighthouse

[AgeManning]

Description

This is a major task and is listed as a good-first-issue mainly to highlight the issue amongst new contributors who may be looking at the project without a rust background

We are interested in developing a UI that interfaces with the beacon node and validator client. This would have simple functionality, such as creating validator keypairs, exiting validators, reporting the state of local validators (i.e balance, status, active/inactive) and show some metrics from the beacon node (state of the network, connected peers, total validators, etc).

The validator client and beacon node will expose HTTP methods to facilitate all the core functionality, the UI will simply interface with the exposed methods.

Ideally, this will be written using React native.

If you are interested in this issue, please reach out to the team :).

[FawadHa1der]

I am pretty new to RUST. But I do want to eventually work on it. I have more of a background in Swift, Objective C, C++, Java script etc. I am willing to get started on this. Can I get more details on this?

[johnsBeharry]

Would love to collaborate on this also! If you don't mind working on this together.

@AgeManning react-native would be for mobile iOS and Android though. Do you mean React + Electron as a desktop app?

[AgeManning]

Hey guys,

I was thinking lighthouse could spin up it's own local http server initially, rather than using Electron.

We currently are in the process of engaging an interested company to help us build this out. So perhaps it would be best to wait to see how this progresses first.

[johnsBeharry]

@AgeManning, most of the work would be on the UI anyway so complexity is negligible between Electron or the local server.

Is there a bidding/rfp process then for this if other companies are involved? Cause I'd really really love to work on this and have a team at hand also.

[AgeManning]

We are putting together an RFP for this and will post it here as soon as it's complete.

[AgeManning]

Hi all, RFP is here: https://lighthouse.sigmaprime.io/ui-rfp.html

[paulhauner]

Closing this since the RfP process is complete and we have selected vendors :)