Expected Behavior

I would expect that the react app, python server, and docs are consistent in how they implement or (for the docs) describe how the registry is ingested.

Current Behavior

Right now:

1. Docs: The docs suggest that the UI loads a JSON dump of the registry
2. Python App: The python app appears to use get_registry_dump to produce a JSON dump of the registry, but get_registry_dump is never called. Instead the UI fetches the registry_proto from /registry (see here and here).
3. UI: useLoadRegistry looks like it used to parse json -- as in feat: Initial merge of Web UI logic #2352 -- but then chore: Replace zod by protobufjs #3208 replaced the json with the protobuf registry

Steps to reproduce

NA

Specifications

• Version: main

Possible Solution

If the intent of #3208 was to replace the json registry with the protobuf version, then the solution would be to:

1. Update the docs to make this clear
2. Update the python ui_server so it doesn't appear to produce the JSON dump via get_registry_dump

Of these solutions, the first (updating docs) is probably the most valuable to the community.