ipfs/ipfs-desktop

Feature Enhancement: Allow users to manually restart, or manually start, bundled go daemon within the app (not only via tray icon)

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#2,293 opened on Oct 10, 2022

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. go daemon startup is tightly coupled to app startup. If you start IPFS desktop and the node fails to start due to repo lock or other issue, users have no ability to get things working without a full app restart.

We're all familiar with this screen which is indicative that a full app restart, or separate daemon start (via CLI) is required:

Describe the solution you'd like ipfs go daemon status should be toggle-able, restartable, stoppable, etc, from the ipfs desktop application

Describe alternatives you've considered N/A

Additional context Related: https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-desktop/issues/1977

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Research direction
Investigate how the go daemon is started and stopped in the app, and where to add UI controls for manual start/stop/restart.
Tech stack
javascriptgo
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
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3
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1-2 days
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Active
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Clear
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GitNode.js
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70