tailscale/cmd/tsconnect
Brad Fitzpatrick e8cc78b1af ipn/ipnserver: change Server to let LocalBackend be supplied async
This is step 1 of de-special-casing of Windows and letting the
LocalAPI HTTP server start serving immediately, even while the rest of
the world (notably the Engine and its TUN device) are being created,
which can take a few to dozens of seconds on Windows.

With this change, the ipnserver.New function changes to not take an
Engine and to return immediately, not returning an error, and let its
Run run immediately. If its ServeHTTP is called when it doesn't yet
have a LocalBackend, it returns an error. A TODO in there shows where
a future handler will serve status before an engine is available.

Future changes will:

* delete a bunch of tailscaled_windows.go code and use this new API
* add the ipnserver.Server ServerHTTP handler to await the engine
  being available
* use that handler in the Windows GUI client

Updates #6522

Change-Id: Iae94e68c235e850b112a72ea24ad0e0959b568ee
Signed-off-by: Brad Fitzpatrick <bradfitz@tailscale.com>
2022-11-28 09:48:33 -08:00
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dist cmd/tsconnect: initial scaffolding for Tailscale Connect browser client 2022-07-19 13:43:08 -07:00
src cmd/tsconnect: add progress and connection callbacks 2022-10-17 15:26:59 -07:00
wasm ipn/ipnserver: change Server to let LocalBackend be supplied async 2022-11-28 09:48:33 -08:00
.gitignore cmd/tsconnect: extract NPM package for reusing in other projects 2022-08-24 17:29:52 -07:00
build-pkg.go cmd/tsconnect: add README to generated NPM package 2022-10-24 13:51:32 -07:00
build.go all: fix spelling mistakes 2022-09-29 13:36:13 -07:00
common.go cmd/tsconnect: run wasm-opt on the generated wasm file 2022-10-25 13:16:37 -07:00
dev-pkg.go cmd/tsconnect: add dev-pkg command for two-sided development 2022-09-06 12:42:58 -07:00
dev.go cmd/tsconnect: add dev-pkg command for two-sided development 2022-09-06 12:42:58 -07:00
index.html cmd/tsconnect: switch UI to Preact 2022-08-08 21:54:06 -07:00
package.json cmd/tsconnect: switch to non-beta versions of xterm and related packages 2022-10-04 15:51:36 -07:00
package.json.tmpl cmd/tsconnect: move NPM package to being under the @tailscale org 2022-10-12 13:18:45 -07:00
README.md cmd/tsconnect: add README to generated NPM package 2022-10-24 13:51:32 -07:00
README.pkg.md cmd/tsconnect: add README to generated NPM package 2022-10-24 13:51:32 -07:00
serve.go refactor: move from io/ioutil to io and os packages 2022-09-15 21:45:53 -07:00
tailwind.config.js cmd/tsconnect: switch UI to Preact 2022-08-08 21:54:06 -07:00
tsconfig.json cmd/tsconnect: switch UI to Preact 2022-08-08 21:54:06 -07:00
tsconnect.go cmd/tsconnect: add dev-pkg command for two-sided development 2022-09-06 12:42:58 -07:00
yarn.lock cmd/tsconnect: switch to non-beta versions of xterm and related packages 2022-10-04 15:51:36 -07:00

tsconnect

The tsconnect command builds and serves the static site that is generated for the Tailscale Connect JS/WASM client.

Development

To start the development server:

./tool/go run ./cmd/tsconnect dev

The site is served at http://localhost:9090/. JavaScript and CSS changes can be picked up with a browser reload. Go changes (including to the wasm package) require the server to be stopped and restarted. In development mode the state the Tailscale client is stored in sessionStorage and will thus survive page reloads (but not the tab being closed).

Deployment

To build the static assets necessary for serving, run:

./tool/go run ./cmd/tsconnect build

To serve them, run:

./tool/go run ./cmd/tsconnect serve

By default the build output is placed in the dist/ directory and embedded in the binary, but this can be controlled by the -distdir flag. The -addr flag controls the interface and port that the serve listens on.

Library / NPM Package

The client is also available as an NPM package. To build it, run:

./tool/go run ./cmd/tsconnect build-pkg

That places the output in the pkg/ directory, which may then be uploaded to a package registry (or installed from the file path directly).

To do two-sided development (on both the NPM package and code that uses it), run:

./tool/go run ./cmd/tsconnect dev-pkg

This serves the module at http://localhost:9090/pkg/pkg.js and the generated wasm file at http://localhost:9090/pkg/main.wasm. The two files can be used as drop-in replacements for normal imports of the NPM module.