The desk currently has the minimum amount of files necessary to distribute an application and should be distributable immediately. Any further Hoon development should happen here.
TODO: Add further documentation on beginning Hoon development
sphinx is built primarily using [React], [Typescript], and [Tailwind CSS]. [Vite] ensures that all code and assets are loaded appropriately, bundles the application for distribution and provides a functional dev environment.
To develop you'll need a running ship to point to. To do so you first need to add a `.env.local` file to the `ui` directory. This file will not be committed. Adding `VITE_SHIP_URL={URL}` where **{URL}** is the URL of the ship you would like to point to, will allow you to run `npm run dev`. This will proxy all requests to the ship except for those powering the interface, allowing you to see live data.
Regardless of what you run to develop, Vite will hot-reload code changes as you work so you don't have to constantly refresh.
### Deploying
To deploy, run `npm run build` in the `ui` directory which will bundle all the code and assets into the `dist/` folder. This can then be made into a glob by doing the following:
1. Create or launch an urbit using the -F flag
2. On that urbit, if you don't already have a desk to run from, run `|merge %work our %base` to create a new desk and mount it with `|mount %work`.
3. Now the `%work` desk is accessible through the host OS's filesystem as a directory of that urbit's pier ie `~/zod/work`.
7. You can now run `-make-glob %work /sphinx` which will take the folder where you just added files and create a glob which can be thought of as a sort of bundle. It will be output to `~/zod/.urb/put`.
8. If you navigate to `~/zod/.urb/put` you should see a file that looks like this `glob-0v5.fdf99.nph65.qecq3.ncpjn.q13mb.glob`. The characters between `glob-` and `.glob` are a hash of the glob's contents.
9. Now that we have the glob it can be uploaded to any publicly available HTTP endpoint that can serve files. This allows the glob to distributed over HTTP.
10. Once you've uploaded the glob, you should then update the corresponding entry in the docket file at `desk/desk.docket-0`. Both the full URL and the hash should be updated to match the glob we just created, on the line that looks like this:
