activist.js is a freedom.js application for loading content through peers when a server is unavailable.
Activist comes in 2 versions, which offer a trade-off between how much work you need to do to add the library to your site, and how many of your users will be able to take advantage of activist.js. New browsers provide features that make the installation of activist.js as simple as adding a script tag to your home page, however this version of the library will only work for a small percentage of your user base. If you are willing to use activist in addition to an app cache, it will be able to help a much larger fraction of your user base, but requires additional changes to your site.
Add activist.js
<script type='text/javascript' src='activist.js' async></script>
Add Offline Cache (recommended)
Adding an application cache manifest will allow activist.js to run on many
more browsers, and is strongly recommended. Adding this cache is a 2 step
process. First, modify the html tag of your entry pages to reference
the cache. It should look something like this:
<html manifest="/activist.appcache">
Sample appcaches are provided in the documentation of this repository. The following is a minimal configuration for activating your hope page:
CACHE MANIFEST
/
/activist.js
Note that the application cache should be served with the mime type of 'text/cache-manifest'. More information on the application cache mechanics are available on the w3 website.
Activist tries really hard to keep your content accessible in the face of adversity. In practice this results in several independent processes that kick into action when your server is unavailable.
The first line of access is to preserve a reasonable cache of your site to allow users to see existing content even if they can't get new updates. To this end, Activist maintains a cache of your content on client machines and shows that content when needed.
To retreive updates, Activist attempts to establish connectivity through CDNs and other rendezvous services. These rendezvous services update while Activist is online, and aim to force interference with a large quantity of content to successfully disrupt.
Contribution and help are welcome! activist.js development is centered on github, and open tasks can be found in the issues area of this repository.
FAQs
resilience to network interference
We found that activist demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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