Jon

> I also don't see any major benefit other than removing a few lines of code on your end Interesting! Could you elaborate?

@zachferland @oed I'm running into the same problem. This likely due to [main](https://github.com/3box/3box-js/blob/develop/package.json#L5) pointing to the `lib` directory, which does not bundle `ipfs` or `orbit-db` as dependencies: When a client...

Ok great @michaelsena thank you! Also, not sure if you saw but i edited some of my original post after doing some testing with an idea i initially thought would...

> The lib folder is just es5, for compatibility, no bundling, which is intentional. This is mostly so that you can still build it how you want, build node/web, shim...

@oed @zachferland just bundled using only babel and no bundling software (webpack, rollup..etc). However when I try to link to this pacakge locally i get: ``` aragon-profile (babel) $ npm...

Think that's definitely the issue. Please keep me updated on this!

An update from @chadoh (another dev who was experiencing hanging calls) - he's on Brave browser and saw these warnings in the console: Warning: Given input entry is not allowed...

Just jotting some notes down here, it is possible that the syncing flow gets stuck on [this line](https://github.com/3box/3box-js/blob/develop/src/3box.js#L159). I'm happy to debug further but going to hang tight for now...

> Do you think it should be limited to only images, or do other types of files as well? Oh good point! I feel like it could go either way...

Yeah, i think using JSON schema would be perfect for this https://json-schema.org/understanding-json-schema/