Front End Decisions

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Since we want to ensure that we effectively bridge the bittorrent and webtorrent torrent protocols, we need to distribute a desktop client.

Tuan says that right now we should be looking at:

• electron

  • webtorrent-desktop is an elecron-based cross-platform desktop application that fits the bill nicely. I'm guessing that it could be made to show a user's content feed.

• ionic

  • Ionic is typescript so at the least that means we have to do type definitions for webtorrent in order to use it.

• react-native

  • When @ozzadar used this to make a mobile app it came out so good he called me. I hear it's pretty different, though. @ekitcho used react to make busy.org. I've bandied about in my mind the idea of trying to contract with their team.

Jake wants to add to the "watched" list:

• flutter
  • Write native mobile apps in dart. Doesn't have a webtorrent library yet, unless dart can import js.