js test index.html not working

[dpoetzsch]

Hi,

the example core/js/src/test/index.html is broken for me. I can generate keys, but generateSymmetricKey already does not work because the function is not available in the api.

As the rest of the code depends on the symmetric key stuff, I could not test any further.

[ernieturner]

Hey @dpoetzsch,

We've done a really bad job at keeping that file up to date and usable with the current state of the library, our apologies. We really need to just remove that file at this point. The benchmark file is likely a better example of seeing how the library works. The instructions for how to hit the benchmarks are in the README and you can look at the source for examples of how all the various methods are called.

If that doesn't help or you're still confused, please let me know.

Also, we've somewhat transitioned this library from Scala to Rust which gives much greater performance than the ScalaJS library here. You might want to take a look at the WebAssembly or NodeJS repos instead if you're planning on using this in a JavaScript environment.

[dpoetzsch]

Thanks for your input, I'll have a look at those repos!

I figured this one out using the benchmark.html already, maybe I could even contribute an improved index.html example -- let's see if I find time for that.

[ernieturner]

We'd definitely appreciate it if you had time for it. We mostly moved away from it because of the dependency issues with some method arguments. For example, encrypt() requires arguments that have to come from various other methods (generatePlaintext(), generateKeyPair(), signing keys, etc) and that file somewhat needs an overhaul to really make it useful.