Polykey Network Dashboard

staging: master:

Network dashboard for Polykey. This uses Docusaurus as a CMS.

GitLab builds this site via the CI/CD into static pages, rendering the markdown files.

The CI/CD pushes it to testnet.polykey.com and mainnet.polykey.com which is hosted by Cloudflare's worker system.

Development

Run nix-shell, and once you're inside, you can use:

# starts a local version
npm run start
# build the the static site
npm run build
# deploy to cloudflare
npm run deploy
# lint the source code
npm run lint
# automatically fix the source
npm run lintfix

You need to do setup the .env from .env.example if you want to successfully deploy to Cloudflare.

We use Git LFS to store all media in images/**. It's important to ensure that git-lfs is installed on your system before you contribute anything (on NixOS, it is installed as a separate package to git). By default anything put under images/** when using git add (after LFS is setup) will be uploaded to LFS, and thus the repository will only have links. Because LFS is enabled, it is used on both GitHub and GitLab.

If this is the first time you cloned the repository, you must use git lfs install to ensure your local repository has LFS setup. It may be automatically setup if you already had it installed prior to cloning.

Pro-tip, if we need to make sure files that were accidentally not put into LFS must be put into LFS, the command to use is:

git lfs migrate import --include="images/**" --everything

Contributing

Because we use docusaurus, we can choose to write in markdown, TSX or MDX.

Pages

Create a new markdown file in /pages. See the other files for formatting.

Note that some pages were not able to be put into /pages due to to more complex coding. These are in the /src.

HTML Syntax

Sometimes markdown syntax just doesn't cut it, and HTML syntax needs to be used.

While docusaurus is flexible, GitHub/GitLab is not.

GitHub/GitLab will process the markdown and then sanitizes the HTML: https://github.com/github/markup#github-markup.

There is a limited set of HTML tags are here: https://github.com/gjtorikian/html-pipeline/blob/03ae30d713199c2562951d627b98b75dc16939e4/lib/html/pipeline/sanitization_filter.rb#L40-L49

Furthermore not all attributes are kept. The style attribute for example is filtered out.

The most common styling attributes to be used will most likely be align, width, and height. See: https://davidwells.io/snippets/how-to-align-images-in-markdown

Linking Assets (files, images)

Markdown supports 2 ways of referencing images:

![](/images/foobar.png)
<img src="/images/foobar.png" />

The former is markdown syntax, the latter is HTML tag.

In order to maintain portability, we always use absolute paths. This works on both GitHub/GitLab markdown rendering and also for docusaurus.

On GitHub/GitLab, which renders the markdown directly, the relative paths are considered relative to the location of the markdown file referencing the path. The absolute paths are considered relative to the root of the project repository. Therefore because images directory is located at the project root, it ends up being routable.

With docusaurus, the absolute paths are looked up relative to static directory. Inside the static directory we have created symlinks pointing back to ../images. This allows docusaurus to also resolve these paths which will be copied into the /build/ directory.

Note that docusaurus doesn't do any special rendering for HTML tags, it uses the src as is. While markdown references will be further processed with webpack. It is therefore preferable to use markdown syntax instead. The docusaurus does support a variant of the HTML tag:

<img src={require('/images/foobar.png').default} />

However this does not work in GitHub/GitLab. So this is not recommended to use.

Therefore if you want to add inline styles to an image and still use markdown syntax so you get the benefit of docusaurus asset processing, the styles must be applied outside the image reference in a surrounding tag:

<div align="center">

  ![](/images/foobar.png)

</div>

Take note of the whitespace newlines between, if no newlines are used, GitHub/GitLab will interpret this as all HTML. Also note that <p></p> will not work.

Note that this won't work for resizing the images unfortunately. You have to apply the width attribute directly to the <img /> tag. See: facebook/docusaurus#6465 for more information.

Linking

In the navigation in Docusaurus, there are several properties that controls how the routing works. Because polykey.com is composed of separate cloudflare workers stitched together into a single domain, we have to hack around client side routing even for what looks like relative links.

{
  to: 'pathname:///docs/',
  target: '_self'
}

The to ensures it shows up as a relative link.

The pathname:// bypasses the client side routing forcing server side routing.

The target: '_self' ensures that the same frame is used instead of creating a new frame.

Deployment

You need to setup .env from .env.example.

Then you can build npm run build.

Finally run npm run deploy.

This will deploy the development workers first.

If you want to deploy production workers, you have to npm run deploy -- --env production.

DNS

DNS is managed by cloudflare. The wrangler.toml specifies the usage of a custom domain for the worker that runs this static site.

The entire built public directory gets uploaded to cloudflare's KV system.

The custom domain is then added as a special record on the testnet.polykey.com and mainnet.polykey.com zone which routes directly to the worker service.

Finally HTTPS is always on, so there's a redirection from http to https too.

Traditionally without the custom domain, you would have to use worker routes. However this only works if you also create a A record for the root with the proxy-mode turned on. The actual address doesn't matter, you can point it to a private or reserved IP, maybe even 127.0.0.1 because once the proxy is activated, the worker routes take effect.