Slate (WIP)

• (WIP) A wonderful experience for creating mood boards, hosting assets, and making connections between topics you are researching
• (WIP) With a Developer API and API Keys, a replacement for Amazon S3.
• (WIP) Aims to have every feature the Filecoin Network supports.
• (WIP) Great for storing images and sharing high resolution photos with friends.
• Design system -> Release repository.

Current prototype (June 15th, 2020)

Developer Introduction

Working on Slate requires an internet connection because we are using a hosted Powergate and a hosted Postgres. That means there is no offline mode in the short term.

.env

• We use a dotenv file to manage sensitive values and secrets.
• You must create this file to work on the application.
• You don't need to create a .env file if you're only working on the design system.
• There will be no local data in the short term.

POSTGRES_ADMIN_PASSWORD=XXX
POSTGRES_ADMIN_USERNAME=XXX
POSTGRES_HOSTNAME=XXX
POSTGRES_DATABASE=XXX
JWT_SECRET=XXX
LOCAL_PASSWORD_SECRET=XXX

Install and run

Run these commands to start the client locally.

git clone git@github.com:filecoin-project/slate.git
cd slate
npm install

# Run using existing .data folder
npm run dev

• Visit localhost:1337 in your browser.

BROKEN: Run electron (MacOS)

@jimmylee recently broke the current version of the client.

While you have npm run dev running, in another terminal screen run:

rm -rf .next
npm run build-electron
npm run electron-pack

And then open Slate.app in dist/mac/slate.app.

Get involved.

Do you want to...

• Help us build a design system for internal use?
• Help us build out this example so every partner in the ecosystem can have example code to work with?

Then...

• If you see things you want to work on, file an issue!
• If you see something you want to fix, submit a PR!
• I'm always available on Twitter to answer your questions: @wwwjim.
• For any build questions feel free to reach out to Colin: cs.mccaleb@gmail.com