feat: Provide access to bundled libraries when in browser

Author: vasco-santos

README.md

@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ In order to be considered "valid", an IPFS core implementation  must expose the
   - [config](/SPEC/CONFIG.md)
   - [stats](/SPEC/STATS.md)
   - [repo](/SPEC/REPO.md)
+- [**Types**](/SPEC/TYPES.md)
 
 ## Contribute
 

SPEC/TYPES.md

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+TYPES API
+=======
+
+A set of data types are exposed directly from the IPFS instance under `ipfs.types`. That way you're not required to import/require the following.
+
+- [`ipfs.types.Buffer`](https://www.npmjs.com/package/buffer)
+- [`ipfs.types.PeerId`](https://github.com/libp2p/js-peer-id)
+- [`ipfs.types.PeerInfo`](https://github.com/libp2p/js-peer-info)
+- [`ipfs.types.multiaddr`](https://github.com/multiformats/js-multiaddr)
+- [`ipfs.types.multibase`](https://github.com/multiformats/multibase)
+- [`ipfs.types.multihash`](https://github.com/multiformats/js-multihash)
+- [`ipfs.types.CID`](https://github.com/ipld/js-cid)
+- [`ipfs.types.crypto`](https://github.com/libp2p/js-libp2p-crypto)
+- [`ipfs.types.dagPB`](https://github.com/ipld/js-ipld-dag-pb)
+- [`ipfs.types.dagCBOR`](https://github.com/ipld/js-ipld-dag-cbor)
+- [`ipfs.types.isIPFS`](https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/is-ipfs)

js/src/types.js

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+/* eslint-env mocha */
+'use strict'
+
+const PeerId = require('peer-id')
+const PeerInfo = require('peer-info')
+const dagCBOR = require('ipld-dag-cbor')
+const dagPB = require('ipld-dag-pb')
+const crypto = require('libp2p-crypto')
+const isIPFS = require('is-ipfs')
+const multiaddr = require('multiaddr')
+const multibase = require('multibase')
+const multihash = require('multihashes')
+const CID = require('cids')
+
+const chai = require('chai')
+const dirtyChai = require('dirty-chai')
+const expect = chai.expect
+chai.use(dirtyChai)
+
+describe('.types', function () {
+  let ipfs
+
+  before(function (done) {
+    // CI takes longer to instantiate the daemon, so we need to increase the
+    // timeout for the before step
+    this.timeout(60 * 1000)
+
+    common.setup((err, factory) => {
+      expect(err).to.not.exist()
+      factory.spawnNode((err, node) => {
+        expect(err).to.not.exist()
+        ipfs = node
+        done()
+      })
+    })
+  })
+
+  after((done) => {
+    common.teardown(done)
+  })
+
+  it('types object', () => {
+    expect(ipfs.types).to.be.deep.equal({
+      Buffer: Buffer,
+      PeerId: PeerId,
+      PeerInfo: PeerInfo,
+      multiaddr: multiaddr,
+      multibase: multibase,
+      multihash: multihash,
+      CID: CID,
+      crypto: crypto,
+      dagPB: dagPB,
+      dagCBOR: dagCBOR,
+      isIPFS: isIPFS
+    })
+  })
+})

package.json

@@ -44,10 +44,14 @@
     "ipfs-block": "~0.6.1",
     "ipld-dag-cbor": "~0.12.0",
     "ipld-dag-pb": "~0.13.1",
+    "is-ipfs": "^0.3.2",
+    "libp2p-crypto": "^0.12.1",
     "multiaddr": "^3.1.0",
+    "multibase": "^0.4.0",
     "multihashes": "~0.4.13",
     "multihashing-async": "~0.4.8",
     "peer-id": "~0.10.6",
+    "peer-info": "^0.11.6",
     "pull-stream": "^3.6.7"
   },
   "devDependencies": {},