techyCoder81 / techyCoder81/hdr-launcher-react
a new backend call should be made that hashes many files at once
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- Dominant language
- TypeScript
- Stars
- 16
- Forks
- 10
- PR merge metrics
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Description
Currently, for verify, we send to the backend one file at a time, and get back its hash, and compare it to what it should be. This results in a lot of back and forth traffic and processing that has resulted in a significantly slower Verify than in the old launcher.
Therefore, a new backend call should be made that passes a tree of files to the backend to get md5 for, and then returns the checksums of those files to the frontend for comparison. This should result in less back-and-forth overall, and hopefully much better performance. This will require using DirTree to communicate data, since that will result in significantly less text being transmitted in each direction than providing a full file path for every single file.
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Research direction
Start by tracing the existing verify flow that sends one file at a time and compare its frontend and backend boundaries. Review how DirTree is represented, then define the new call around a tree of files and returned checksums. Done means verify can compare the returned MD5 values with less back-and-forth traffic.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- react, typescript
- Domain
- backend, performance
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100