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Create an application

Applications are the core of AKASHA. They are the building blocks that powers a world (link to world definition here).

App Folder Structure

In order to maintain consistency between different apps, we recommend creating a similar top level folder structure:

Basic App Directory Structure
├── src
│ ├── components
│ │ ├── app.tsx // root component of your app
│ │ ├── index.tsx // single-spa-react lifecycle exports
│ └── index.tsx // registration function export
├── package.json
├── README.md
├── tsconfig.json
├── yarn.lock
└── webpack.config.js

Loading/Unloading Apps

Before loading and unloading apps, they must be registered in the app-loader module.

// @TODO: describe how to register apps

Registration Object Interface

Every application is required to export a register function that will be called by the App Loader. It's recommended to be exported from an index.ts file in the src folder of your app.

Minimum required properties of the returned object in order to be loaded are:

src/index.ts
export default register (registrationOptions) {
return {
mountsIn: 'string',
loadingFn: () => import('my-application'), // must return a promise
activeWhen: (location, pathToActiveWhen) => pathToActiveWhen('/my-app-route')(location), // must be a boolean
routes: {}, // other apps can use these routes to navigate to this app
menuItems: {} // used by the sidebar widget to generate a menu
};
}
ReactJS

We only support React as the UI library for now.

Creating a basic Hello Akasha World app

From the root of the repository you have cloned in the quickstart guide:

1. Create a folder in ui/apps/hello-ethereum-world

create the application folder
$ mkdir ui/apps/hello-ethereum-world

2. Change directory to that folder

 $ cd ui/apps/hello-ethereum-world

3. Run yarn init and complete the prompts

$ yarn init
yarn init v1.22.18
question name (hello-ethereum-world): @test/hello-ethereum-world
question version (1.0.0): (empty)
question description: A simple hello world app
question entry point (index.js): lib/index.js
question repository url: (empty)
question author: Etherean
question license (MIT): (empty)
question private: true

4 Edit package.json to add the following fields:

editing /ui/apps/hello-ethereum-world/package.json
  "scripts": {
"build": "tsc --build",
"pack": "NODE_OPTIONS='--max-old-space-size=4096' webpack --config webpack.config.js",
"postpack": "copyfiles -f ./dist/* ../../build/apps/auth-app",
},
"dependencies": {
"single-spa-react": "4.6.0"
},
"devDependencies": {
"@types/react": "17.0.20",
"@types/react-dom": "17.0.9"
},
"peerDependencies": {
"react": "17.0.2",
"react-dom": "17.0.2",
}

5. create the webpack configuration file

create /ui/apps/hello-ethereum-world/webpack.config.js
// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires
const path = require("path");
// eslint-disable-next-line @typescript-eslint/no-var-requires
const baseConfig = require("../../webpack.config");

module.exports = Object.assign(baseConfig, {
context: path.resolve(__dirname),
output: Object.assign(baseConfig.output, {
path: path.resolve(__dirname, "dist"),
publicPath: "auto",
}),
});

6. create the src and src/components folders

creating ui/apps/hello-ethereum-world/src
$ mkdir -p src/components

7. create the src/index.jsx file with the following contents

creating ui/apps/hello-ethereum-world/src/index.jsx
import "systemjs-webpack-interop/auto-public-path";

export const register = (options) => ({
activeWhen: (location, pathToActiveWhen) => {
return pathToActiveWhen(rootRoute)(location);
},
loadingFn: () => import("./components"),
mountsIn: opts.layoutConfig?.pluginSlotId,
logo: { type: LogoTypeSource.ICON, value: "appAkasha" },
i18nNamespace: ["app-hello-ethereum-world"],
});

8. create the src/components/index.jsx file with the following contents

creating ui/apps/hello-ethereum-world/src/components/index.jsx
import React from "react";
import ReactDOM from "react-dom";
import singleSpaReact from "single-spa-react";
import App from "./app";

const reactLifecycles = singleSpaReact({
React,
ReactDOM,
rootComponent: App,
errorBoundary: (error, errorInfo, props) => {
if (props.logger) {
props.logger.error(`${JSON.stringify(error)}, ${errorInfo}`);
}
return "Something went wrong";
},
});

export const bootstrap = reactLifecycles.bootstrap;

export const mount = reactLifecycles.mount;

export const unmount = reactLifecycles.unmount;

9. Create a basic React component in src/components/app.jsx file

creating ui/apps/hello-ethereum-world/src/components/app.jsx
import * as React from "react";

const HelloEthereumWorldApp = (props) => {
return <div>Hello Akasha World</div>;
};

export default HelloEthereumWorldApp;

Repository setup for the newly created app

1. Repo setup: nx, registryOverrides, examples/ethereum.world/src/index update