Feature: Use DNSLink

[Stebalien]

I'm not sure if this is possible but it would be awesome if proto.school could use DNSLink. I'm preparing for some potentially offline presentations and was able to simply "pin" dag.ipfs.io, explore.ipld.io, and cid.ipfs.io, but not proto.school.

[terichadbourne]

I don't know a ton about domains, deployment, or DNSLink, but I would guess that this suggestion might be dependent on #18? Does that sound right @mikeal? (We're currently publishing via GitHub Pages, and we need our chapter repos to continue being able to do that.)

[hacdias]

@terichadbourne I think this is a must: having ProtoSchool on IPFS itself would be awesome.

If I understand correctly, each chapter can publish to https://proto.school/<city>, right? If so, I think it will be a bit harder to put this on IPFS, otherwise it should be rather simple.

[terichadbourne]

Yes that's right @hacdias, and we also have the issue where we're using hash-based routing within the whole Vue SPA, which I know can sometimes make it harder to host on IPFS.

Perhaps another issue would be how localStorage works? If there would be an IPFS-hosted and a "normally"-hosted version of the site, I assume the caching of the user's progress wouldn't be recognized unless they always visited it the same way?

I'm starting to think that this issue might actually be a duplicate of #18 rather than just dependent on it, but I'm not familiar enough with infra stuff to confirm. @hacdias would you mind taking a look? Especially at the discussion starting here: #18 (comment)

If we're really having the same convo in two places, we should consolidate into #18.

[hacdias]

@terichadbourne yes, they are kind of related. It seems to me that #18 already encompasses the usage of DNSLink so, yes, I would close one of them in favour of the other.

hash-based routing within the whole Vue SPA, which I know can sometimes make it harder to host on IPFS.

Not sure if I'm understanding correctly, but Web UI also uses hash-based routing and it works perfectly when hosted on IPFS 😃

Perhaps another issue would be how localStorage works? If there would be an IPFS-hosted and a "normally"-hosted version of the site, I assume the caching of the user's progress wouldn't be recognized unless they always visited it the same way?

You are correct!

[terichadbourne]

Thanks @hacdias! I'll close this one in favor of continuing conversation in #18.