[meta] Enabling build gaia with web client

[gasolin]

The Idea is host a web server in foxbox (or work alone without foxbox), and provide web app to let developer could build gaia on web directly.

The rough architecture could use
https://github.com/gasolin/webapplate to provide

• node/express server
• webapp template

Things need to evaluate:

• use node to execute command
• get console log to node server
• design API to simplify server and webapp communication

[gasolin]

Ref:

• expose web server in VM to host OS http://aruljohn.com/info/virtualbox-access-guest-from-host-nat/
• Execute A Unix Command With Node.js http://www.dzone.com/snippets/execute-unix-command-nodejs

[gasolin]

The goal will be spanned in gaia only in first phase.

We could create a daemon foxboxd to accept REST API, handle command queue, report result, track progress via API. And provide a basic webapp that allow controlled from Desktop or mobile device. The webapp could use FirefoxOS BuildingBlock as UI framework.

It could be lose-coupled with foxbox, which means current gaia developer also get benefit from foxboxd.

[gasolin]

go with web terminal https://github.com/codetunnel/shotgun/wiki/Getting-Started