Last push of documentation for the client stuff.

client/main.js

@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+/*
+  This is the main file for the client Svelte app.  Usually you wouldn't need to
+  modify this unless you want to alter the Svelte configuration or add some
+  necessary code.
+ */
 import App from '$/client/App.svelte';
 
 const app = new App({

client/stores.js

@@ -1,11 +1,28 @@
+/*
+  The main Svelte stores used in the application.  The main one is the `user`, which
+  contains a store for the current user. Svelte stores are a useful way to maintain
+  information that's used across pages.  I've left in a few that I used for caching
+  in my courses at https://learnjsthehardway.com so you can see how to use a store
+  for caching.
+ */
 import { writable } from 'svelte/store';
 
-
+/*
-// look in api/login.js and client/pages/Login.svelte for where this is initially setup
+  Look in api/login.js and client/pages/Login.svelte for where this is initially setup.
+ */
 export const user = writable({
   authenticated: undefined, // yes, this is on purpose
 });
 
+/*
+  I used this for some basic caching of course items, since constantly loading
+  them on every click was pointless.  The course material doesn't change much,
+  so caching it makes sense.  Why didn't I use Service Workers instead?  Service
+  Workers are very unreliable when it comes to reloading.  They require a lot of
+  extra gear just to make simple refreshing a page of content work.  If what you
+  cache persists across refresh the go ahead and use Service Worker caching.  If
+  not then just do it this way.
+ */
 export const cache = writable({
   courses: {},
   modules: {},
@@ -13,6 +30,9 @@ export const cache = writable({
   recents: {}
 });
 
+/*
+  Clears out the cache.  Again, mostly a demo.
+ */
 export const cache_reset = () => {
   cache.update(() => ({
     courses: {},
@@ -22,6 +42,13 @@ export const cache_reset = () => {
   }));
 }
 
+/*
+  Use for video configuration information that's shared between
+  video pages.
+ */
 export const video_config = writable({video_ready: false});
 
+/*
+  The user's darkmode setting.
+ */
 export const darkmode = writable({theme: "light"});

client/websocket.js

@@ -1,12 +1,27 @@
+/*
+  Helpers for dealing with the `socket/` handlers, similar to the
+  code in `client/api.js`.  WebSockets already work well with JSON
+  data, so this mostly handles create a single connection, and
+  reconnecting when you need to.
+ */
 import { inject_remote } from "$/client/components/Source.svelte";
 
 let raw_socket;
 
+/*
+  Load the `/js/socket.io.min.js` file using `client/components/Sourse.svelte:inject_remote`.
+  This makes it so if you don't use the socket.io stuff then you won't download the code.
+ */
 export const configure_socket = async () => {
   await inject_remote(document, "/js/socket.io.min.js");
 }
 
+/*
+  Connect to the server __once__.  This should maintain the connection
+  in the SPA for as long as possible and return only one.
 
+  + `reconnection boolean` -- The reconnection policy that's passed to socket.io `io()`.
+ */
 export const connect_socket = (reconnection=false) => {
   if(raw_socket === undefined) {
     raw_socket = io({ reconnection });
@@ -15,6 +30,14 @@ export const connect_socket = (reconnection=false) => {
   return raw_socket;
 }
 
+/*
+  This is actually the way you should connect a socket in most pages.
+  This will detect if a connection already exists, and if it does it
+  simply disconnects, then reconnects.
+
+  If there isn't a connection yet then it will call `connect_socket()`
+  to establish the first one.
+ */
 export const reconnect_socket = () => {
   if(raw_socket !== undefined) {
     raw_socket.disconnect();

client/wt.js

@@ -1,18 +1,28 @@
+/*
+  This needs an entire rewrite using the FSM code.  Most of this is hacked on
+  garbage that is unreliable at the best of times.  The documentation here is
+  mostly give what I have a bit of help, and I keep this _mostly_ as an example
+  of how to work with an older API.  In the future I want to rewrite this--or write
+  an alternative--that uses the `client/fsm.js` library similar to how `HLSVideo.svelte`
+  works.
+ */
+
 const seedTimeout = 60000;
 import { webtorrent, base_host } from '$/client/config.js';
 import assert from "$/client/assert.js";
 import { log } from "$/client/logging.js";
 
-/* This needs an entire rewrite using the FSM code.  Most of this is hacked on
- * garbage that is unreliable at the best of times.
- */
-
-// WARNING: having svelte build the webtorrent client into the script makes it slow to load and massive.
-// it's much faster to set it as a script variable in the index.html but that might cause loading problems
-// WebTorrent then comes from the public/index.html file, not from an import in here
 
 let LAZY_CLIENT;  // this is lazy loaded by getClient
 
+/*
+  Load the massive WebTorrent client javascript.
+
+  ___WARNING___: having svelte build the webtorrent client into the script
+  makes it slow to load and massive.  it's much faster to set it as a script
+  variable in the index.html but that might cause loading problems WebTorrent
+  then comes from the public/index.html file, not from an import in here
+ */
 const getClient = () => {
   // super hacks!
   if(LAZY_CLIENT) {
@@ -34,7 +44,20 @@ const getClient = () => {
   }
 }
 
+/*
+  Base class for handling WebTorrent events.  Look at the `VideoEvents` class
+  in `client/components/WTVideo.svelte` for how to use it.  You subclass this
+  if you want to give visual feedback to different events in WebTorrent, such
+  as new clients connecting, download rates, etc.
+ */
 export class WTEvents {
+  /*
+    Takes a `Media` object and video player options, then sets up the
+    necessary things to make a video play after WebTorrent has downloaded it.
+
+    + `media Media` -- Media object from the database.
+    + `video_opts Object` -- Default is `{autoplay: false, controls: true, muted: false}`.
+   */
   constructor(media, video_opts) {
     assert(media, "Media must exist.");
     this.media = media;
@@ -42,12 +65,17 @@ export class WTEvents {
     this.appendId = `append-${media.target_id}`;
   }
 
+  /* Set the torrent to use. */
   setTorrent(torrent) {
     // TODO: refine this
     this.media.torrent = torrent;
     this.torrent = torrent;
   }
 
+  /*
+    Does the work needed when a video is ready.
+    Be sure to call it with super if you override.
+   */
   videoReady(file) {
     this.media.kind = 'video';
     file.renderTo(`#${this.appendId}`, this.video_opts);
@@ -57,6 +85,10 @@ export class WTEvents {
     });
   }
 
+  /*
+    Same as videoReady. This will setup HTML5 `<audio>` tags instead
+    of `<video>` tags.
+   */
   audioReady(file) {
     this.media.kind = 'audio';
     file.renderTo(`#${this.appendId}`, this.video_opts);
@@ -66,6 +98,12 @@ export class WTEvents {
     });
   }
 
+  /*
+    Other kinds of media that WebTorrent will download. This doesn't
+    reall do much other than call `this.download_available()`. You
+    probably just want to override `download_available()` then
+    use that to make a download link.
+   */
   otherReady(file) {
     file.renderTo(`#${this.appendId}`, (err, elem) => {
       // TODO: hmmm do we need to do anything here with elem?
@@ -84,51 +122,67 @@ export class WTEvents {
     });
   }
 
+  /* Override this to do something when a download of the media is available. */
   download_available(url) {
     log.debug("download url available");
   }
 
+  /* Override this to handle when it's done downloading. */
   done() {
     log.debug("done", this.media);
   }
 
+  /* Probably don't need to alter this. Use super if you override it. */
   infoHash(hash) {
     this.media.info_hash = hash;
   }
 
+  /* Probably don't need to alter this. Use super if you override it. */
   metadata(data) {
     this.media.metadata = data;
   }
 
+  /*
+    Just returns true to WebTorrent, but you can override this if you
+    want to do something before WebTorrent starts. Your version
+    must return true.
+   */
   ready() {
     return true;
   }
 
+  /* Logs WebTorrent warnings. */
   warning(msg) {
     log.debug("WT WARNING", msg);
   }
 
+  /* Logs WebTorrent errors. */
   error(msg) {
     log.debug("WT ERROR", msg);
   }
 
+  /* Event when bytes are downloaded. Override to process it. */
   download(bytes) {
     return bytes !== undefined;
   }
 
+  /* Event when bytes are uploaded. Override to process it. */
   upload(bytes) {
     return bytes !== undefined;
   }
 
+  /* Notification when there's a new connection to ... a wire. */
   wire(wire) {
     // this weird idiom is to make eslint shut up for these placeholders
     return wire !== undefined;
   }
 
+  /* WebTorrent event for ... uh... noPeers? */
   noPeers(announceType) {
     log.debug('noPeers from', announceType);
   }
 
+  /* Handles any client errors, currently just logs. */
   client_error(err) {
     log.error(err, "client error");
     return true;
@@ -136,6 +190,10 @@ export class WTEvents {
 }
 
 
+/*
+  This is called inside WebTorrent to process a new torrent being added to
+  the client.  You don't really call this.
+ */
 const handle_torrent = (media, torrent, events) => {
   torrent.files.forEach((file) => {
     media.file_name = file.name;
@@ -164,6 +222,12 @@ const handle_torrent = (media, torrent, events) => {
   torrent.on('noPeers', announceType => events.noPeers(announceType));
 }
 
+/*
+  Used in `client/components/WTVideo.svelte` to fetch the correct .torrent file
+  for the media object.
+
+  + `media Media` -- This is a `lib/models.js:Media` object.
+ */
 export const fetch_torrent_file = async (media) => {
   assert(media, "media can't be undefined");
   assert(media.torrent_url, "media does not have torrent_url set");
@@ -180,8 +244,11 @@ export const fetch_torrent_file = async (media) => {
   }
 }
 
-// this thing's job is to load the torrents with webtorrent and then fill out the active_media
+/*
-// Debug in the browser with:  localStorage.debug = '*';
+  This thing's job is to load the torrents with webtorrent and then fill out the active_media.
+
+  Debug in the browser with:  localStorage.debug = '*';
+ */
 export const load = (media, events) => {
   assert(media, "media can't be undefined");
   assert(media.torrent_file, "media does not have torrent_file set");
@@ -194,6 +261,15 @@ export const load = (media, events) => {
   });
 }
 
+/*
+  WebTorrent does a weird internal client management thing that really
+  is not friendly with an SPA.  To manage it, I have a single WebTorrent
+  and then you can add or remove media to it.  This is how you remove
+  any media that's active.  Use it when people transition off of a page
+  showing a video so that it stops eating RAM.
+
+  + `media Media` -- Media object from the database.
+ */
 export const remove = (media) => {
   if(media.torrent) {
     getClient().remove(media.torrent);