Renaming the SDK to webnative, explaining the background

[boris]

First of all, an announcement that we’ve renamed ts-sdk to just “webnative”. This has been updated on the Github repo GitHub - oddsdk/ts-odd: An SDK for building apps with decentralized identity and storage., and we have the package name on NPM as well.

Our intent is for this to be open source and standards based. It works hand in hand with the Fission hosting platform, but it’s also an app building framework that runs anywhere, or host your own platform components. We want to be a constellation provider, not a single source cloud provider (see presentation by Boris on this).

The developer docs are light, but I have started a conceptual starting point on the Guide Fission Guide

Writing about how login works both technically and conceptually is also related:

What does "log in" or "log out" mean for the Fission SDK and apps?

When you visit an app powered by Fission, the “Sign in with Fission” is about giving the app permission to access your file system and store data there for you, related to the app. To create a new Fission account, you can either visit the Auth lobby auth.fission.codes, and a private key is created in your browser using the WebCrypto API. We ask for a unique username, and also an email address to verify. Or, you can download the Fission CLI and create a new account on the command line, where a …

And yes, the file system we’re also calling “Web Native File System”, or winfs, which got presented last week:

Fission’s Web Native File System Technical Design Overview with Daniel and Brooklyn

Join us for an overview of the file system that we’ve designed on top of IPFS, that we call WNFS, a Web Native File System, or “win-fs” for short. We’ve designed the system to store metadata, encrypted private files, and offer a number of features for end users and developers using the file system to build web apps with a web native file system, where files are owned by users. This also leads to a style of single tenant architecture for web apps, but for this presentation we will focus mainly o…

Thanks for your patience and interest as we roll this out and document it. Looking forward to a few web native sample apps