Comment on Expanding Materialious to other platforms
Ward@lemmy.nz 2 months agoIsn’t just a theme, is a completely different application built on top of Invidious’ API. What works completely differently to Invidious’ current UI. A LOT of things are handled different then how Invidious handles it on their frontend. Replacing Invidious current interface with Materialious isn’t a good idea, because its quite a bit bigger & requires JS compared to Invidious’ current UI.
Currently Materialios a theme would be like calling clipious a theme.
Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
yeah but clipious just connects to existing invidious instances, so it’s just a frontend to invidious. you are making your own frontend and backend both
Ward@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Materialious does currently just use Invidious’ API. If extending it requires a custom backend it will be a completely different project (what will still be using Invidious)
Scolding0513@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
does it connect by default to already-existing invidious instances? guess im confused now
Ward@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
It requires the Invidious instance to have the correct COR values for Materialious, but yes connects to a existing instance.