5chan/electron/start-plebbit-rpc.js

import tcpPortUsed from 'tcp-port-used';
import EnvPaths from 'env-paths';
import { randomBytes } from 'crypto';
import fs from 'fs-extra';
import PlebbitRpc from '@plebbit/plebbit-js/dist/node/rpc/src/index.js';
import path from 'path';
import { fileURLToPath } from 'url';
import isDev from 'electron-is-dev';
const dirname = path.join(path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)));
const envPaths = EnvPaths('plebbit', { suffix: false });

//           PLEB, always run plebbit rpc on this port so all clients can use it
const port = 9138;
const defaultPlebbitOptions = {
  // find the user's OS data path
  dataPath: !isDev ? envPaths.data : path.join(dirname, '..', '.plebbit'),
  ipfsHttpClientsOptions: ['http://localhost:5001/api/v0'],
  // TODO: having to define pubsubHttpClientsOptions and ipfsHttpClientsOptions is a bug with plebbit-js
  pubsubHttpClientsOptions: ['http://localhost:5001/api/v0'],
};

// generate plebbit rpc auth key if doesn't exist
const plebbitRpcAuthKeyPath = path.join(defaultPlebbitOptions.dataPath, 'auth-key');
let plebbitRpcAuthKey;
try {
  plebbitRpcAuthKey = fs.readFileSync(plebbitRpcAuthKeyPath, 'utf8');
} catch (e) {
  plebbitRpcAuthKey = randomBytes(32).toString('base64').replace(/[/+=]/g, '').substring(0, 40);
  fs.ensureFileSync(plebbitRpcAuthKeyPath);
  fs.writeFileSync(plebbitRpcAuthKeyPath, plebbitRpcAuthKey);
}

let pendingStart = false;
const start = async () => {
  if (pendingStart) {
    return;
  }
  pendingStart = true;
  try {
    const started = await tcpPortUsed.check(port, '127.0.0.1');
    if (started) {
      return;
    }
    const plebbitWebSocketServer = await PlebbitRpc.PlebbitWsServer({ port, plebbitOptions: defaultPlebbitOptions, authKey: plebbitRpcAuthKey });

    console.log(`plebbit rpc: listening on ws://localhost:${port} (local connections only)`);
    console.log(`plebbit rpc: listening on ws://localhost:${port}/${plebbitRpcAuthKey} (secret auth key for remote connections)`);
    plebbitWebSocketServer.ws.on('connection', (socket, request) => {
      console.log('plebbit rpc: new connection');
      // debug raw JSON RPC messages in console
      if (isDev) {
        socket.on('message', (message) => console.log(`plebbit rpc: ${message.toString()}`));
      }
    });
  } catch (e) {
    console.log('failed starting plebbit rpc server', e);
  }
  pendingStart = false;
};

// retry starting the plebbit rpc server every 1 second,
// in case it was started by another client that shut down and shut down the server with it
start();
setInterval(() => {
  start();
}, 1000);