Provide frontend API SDK

[vitonsky]

Hi, your comments system looks great, i like how fast it may be configure and deploy.

However, the frontend side are looks really bad. I suggest to introduce a SDK which allow to clients make own implementations of comments component.

I know about https://remark42.com/docs/contributing/api/ page and it's really good, but i'm not ready to support wrappers over API of comments engine. Your product is really good, you give us a way to fast deploy self hosted comments, as user i expect a tools to as fast implement my own component which can use all powerful of remark42 as i can deploy the backend.

[umputun]

pls use discussions for this type of requests/ideas

[umputun]

first of all, I have no clue what "frontend side are looks really bad" even means. This is the frontend and it works as designed. You are welcome to submit PRs fixing whatever "looks really bad" to you. I am also not sure what type of SDK you have in mind and what's wrong with API. If you want an alternative frontend - API is here and you can implement anything you like.

@akellbl4 - maybe you have a clue? Well, considering the "really bad" frontend side made mostly by you, I doubt you are capable of providing anything useful, but give it a try ;)

[akellbl4]

Suddenly I couldn't be granted with such honor as being a main contributor to visual appearance of remark :(

[vitonsky]

The frontend side is not customizable, use a global variables instead of give me instance object at least, contains a minified code, not fixed bugs like #1340

It's fine, but i prefer to implement my own UI, with my favorite UI library on my favorite framework.

API it's good, i want to you provide a wrapper over your API, to shift maintenance responsibility from me to the remark42 contributors

[akellbl4]

It must not be implemented by any frontend SDK first of all because it unsafe. You do not need to store it and only one use for it is authentication and this feature works out of the box.

[vitonsky]

@umputun logic to renew tokens should be implemented in SDK library, yes. Actually at this time all i need is implement own frontend for the comments and probably prerender comments on server side on the nodejs code, so http-only cookie should be enough. We should just move this code https://github.com/umputun/remark42/blob/master/frontend/app/common/api.ts to the package which mean we should refactor this logic to use instance variables instead of data from global config

[vitonsky]

@akellbl4 security it's not a thing which should care SDK about. SDK must provide a knobs which allow to implement any interactions with API

[akellbl4]

Security is the thing that we care about when develop Remark42 and we won't compromise it in any possible way.

[vitonsky]

@akellbl4 it's good, but the exists limitations is not about security. You can return session token only once right after successful authenticate, if you about the problem when somebody may get session ID bypass the http-only cookie. If you about the problem when somebody can steal session ID which keep in place accessible for javascript, then it's not a reason to reduce SDK abilities. Just don't use this functional in your frontend implementation