Store manifest in memory so it does not need to be generated for every page request (#1433)

Co-authored-by: Dessalines <dessalines@users.noreply.github.com>

src/server/handlers/manifest-handler.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+import type { Request, Response } from "express";
+import { LemmyHttp } from "lemmy-js-client";
+import { getHttpBaseInternal } from "../../shared/env";
+import { wrapClient } from "../../shared/services/HttpService";
+import generateManifestJson from "../utils/generate-manifest-json";
+import { setForwardedHeaders } from "../utils/set-forwarded-headers";
+
+let manifest: Awaited<ReturnType<typeof generateManifestJson>> | undefined =
+  undefined;
+
+export default async (req: Request, res: Response) => {
+  if (!manifest) {
+    const headers = setForwardedHeaders(req.headers);
+    const client = wrapClient(new LemmyHttp(getHttpBaseInternal(), headers));
+    const site = await client.getSite({});
+
+    if (site.state === "success") {
+      manifest = await generateManifestJson(site.data);
+    } else {
+      res.sendStatus(500);
+      return;
+    }
+  }
+
+  res.setHeader("content-type", "application/manifest+json");
+
+  res.send(manifest);
+};

src/server/index.tsx

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ import express from "express";
 import path from "path";
 import process from "process";
 import CatchAllHandler from "./handlers/catch-all-handler";
+import ManifestHandler from "./handlers/manifest-handler";
 import RobotsHandler from "./handlers/robots-handler";
 import ServiceWorkerHandler from "./handlers/service-worker-handler";
 import ThemeHandler from "./handlers/theme-handler";
@@ -24,6 +25,7 @@ if (!process.env["LEMMY_UI_DISABLE_CSP"] && !process.env["LEMMY_UI_DEBUG"]) {
 
 server.get("/robots.txt", RobotsHandler);
 server.get("/service-worker.js", ServiceWorkerHandler);
+server.get("/manifest", ManifestHandler);
 server.get("/css/themes/:name", ThemeHandler);
 server.get("/css/themelist", ThemesListHandler);
 server.get("/*", CatchAllHandler);

src/server/utils/create-ssr-html.tsx

@@ -5,17 +5,19 @@ import sharp from "sharp";
 import { ILemmyConfig, IsoDataOptionalSite } from "../../shared/interfaces";
 import { favIconPngUrl, favIconUrl } from "../../shared/utils";
 import { fetchIconPng } from "./fetch-icon-png";
-import { generateManifestBase64 } from "./generate-manifest-base64";
 
 const customHtmlHeader = process.env["LEMMY_UI_CUSTOM_HTML_HEADER"] || "";
 
+let appleTouchIcon: string | undefined = undefined;
+
 export async function createSsrHtml(
   root: string,
   isoData: IsoDataOptionalSite
 ) {
   const site = isoData.site_res;
 
-  const appleTouchIcon = site?.site_view.site.icon
+  if (!appleTouchIcon) {
+    appleTouchIcon = site?.site_view.site.icon
       ? `data:image/png;base64,${sharp(
           await fetchIconPng(site.site_view.site.icon)
         )
@@ -31,6 +33,7 @@ export async function createSsrHtml(
           .toBuffer()
           .then(buf => buf.toString("base64"))}`
       : favIconPngUrl;
+  }
 
   const erudaStr =
     process.env["LEMMY_UI_DEBUG"] === "true"
@@ -74,15 +77,7 @@ export async function createSsrHtml(
      />
   
     <!-- Web app manifest -->
-    ${
+    <link rel="manifest" href="/manifest" />
-      site &&
-      `<link
-          rel="manifest"
-          href=${`data:application/manifest+json;base64,${await generateManifestBase64(
-            site
-          )}`}
-        />`
-    }
     <link rel="apple-touch-icon" href=${appleTouchIcon} />
     <link rel="apple-touch-startup-image" href=${appleTouchIcon} />
   

src/server/utils/generate-manifest-json.ts

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ import sharp from "sharp";
 import { getHttpBaseExternal } from "../../shared/env";
 import { fetchIconPng } from "./fetch-icon-png";
 
-const iconSizes = [72, 96, 144, 192, 512];
+const iconSizes = [72, 96, 128, 144, 152, 192, 384, 512];
 
 const defaultLogoPathDirectory = path.join(
   process.cwd(),
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ const defaultLogoPathDirectory = path.join(
   "icons"
 );
 
-export async function generateManifestBase64({
+export default async function ({
   my_user,
   site_view: {
     site,
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ export async function generateManifestBase64({
 
   const icon = site.icon ? await fetchIconPng(site.icon) : null;
 
-  const manifest = {
+  return {
     name: site.name,
     description: site.description ?? "A link aggregator for the fediverse",
     start_url: url,
@@ -69,20 +69,13 @@ export async function generateManifestBase64({
         short_name: "Communities",
         description: "Browse communities",
       },
-    ]
-      .concat(
-        my_user
-          ? [
       {
         name: "Create Post",
         url: "/create_post",
         short_name: "Create Post",
         description: "Create a post.",
       },
-            ]
+    ].concat(
-          : []
-      )
-      .concat(
       my_user?.local_user_view.person.admin || !community_creation_admin_only
         ? [
             {
@@ -102,6 +95,4 @@ export async function generateManifestBase64({
       },
     ],
   };
-
-  return Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(manifest)).toString("base64");
 }