The preview server is a headless chromium instance that generates screenshots and animations of items via puppeteer. It's also in charge of generating unique trading cards for every NFT item minted. Here's how it works:
- Start with user-agent (website or Discord bot) requesting a preview image.
- Request gets sent to the preview server, checks S3 cache if there's a preview already.
- If there's no preview, the server will ask the API about the token and fetch the IPFS content
- The files from the IPFS hash get rendered using Puppeteer, exported as previews.
Run https://github.com/webaverse/app, then: