Desktop client using common development port 8080

[skinofstars]

Port 8080 is a very common port for anyone running local web development servers, so having the UI listening on that port gives a high chance of conflict.

Why not use an out the way port (e.g. 41256) to avoid any chance of conflict.

[hacdias]

What is it that is running on 8080? The gateway?

[skinofstars]

Looks like it, yes

[hacdias]

Oh, then it is not actually related to IPFS Desktop. It's the daemon running inside, which generally uses the repository at your home directory. You can change the configuration there ($HOME/.ipfs/config).

We could change it on development (npm run start), but it doesn't make sense to be changing an IPFS Repository configuration for one time runs. The other option would be to have a repository only for development purposes. Although I can't imagine why would that be useful.

I hope it helps!

I'm closing this because this is a duplicate of an issue posted on other repository. Please take a look at: ipfs/kubo#874

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