JS IPFS Examples

Collection of js-ipfs examples


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Table of Contents

• Table of Contents
• About The Project
• Getting Started
  • Prerequisites
  • Installation
• Structure
• IPFS Tutorials at ProtoSchool
• Documentation
• Contributing
• Want to hack on IPFS?

About The Project

• Read the docs
• Look into other examples to learn how to spawn an IPFS node in Node.js and in the Browser
• Consult the Core API docs to see what you can do with an IPFS node
• Visit https://dweb-primer.ipfs.io to learn about IPFS and the concepts that underpin it
• Head over to https://proto.school to take interactive tutorials that cover core IPFS APIs
• Check out https://docs.ipfs.io for tips, how-tos and more
• See https://blog.ipfs.io for news and more
• Need help? Please ask 'How do I?' questions on https://discuss.ipfs.io

Getting Started

Prerequisites

Make sure you have installed all of the following prerequisites on your development machine:

• Git - Download & Install Git. OSX and Linux machines typically have this already installed.
• Node.js - Download & Install Node.js and the npm package manager.

Installation

1. Install yarn globally (needed to resolve dependencies correctly when working in a monorepo)

   npm install -g yarn

2. Install NPM packages

   npm run init

3. Run all the examples

   npm run test:examples

Structure

This project is broken into 2 modules, their purposes are:

• /examples/* Examples of IPFS implementations with bundlers, frameworks, tutorials among others
• /lib/test-util-ipfs-example Collection of helpers to orchestrate the tests for the examples

IPFS Tutorials at ProtoSchool

Explore ProtoSchool's IPFS tutorials for interactive js-ipfs coding challenges, deep dives into DWeb concepts like content addressing, and more.

Documentation

• Config
• Core API
• Examples
• Development

Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to be learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated.

1. Fork the IPFS Examples Project (https://github.com/ipfs-examples/js-ipfs-examples)
2. Create your Feature Branch (git checkout -b feature/amazing-feature)
3. Commit your Changes (git commit -a -m 'feat: add some amazing feature')
4. Push to the Branch (git push origin feature/amazing-feature)
5. Open a Pull Request

Want to hack on IPFS?

The IPFS implementation in JavaScript needs your help! There are a few things you can do right now to help out:

Read the Code of Conduct and JavaScript Contributing Guidelines.

• Check out existing issues The issue list has many that are marked as 'help wanted' or 'difficulty:easy' which make great starting points for development, many of which can be tackled with no prior IPFS knowledge
• Look at the IPFS Roadmap This are the high priority items being worked on right now
• Perform code reviews More eyes will help a. speed the project along b. ensure quality, and c. reduce possible future bugs.
• Add tests. There can never be enough tests.
• Join the Weekly Core Implementations Call it's where everyone discusses what's going on with IPFS and what's next