Please add instructions on how to load the extension on Brave

[daviddias]

To the README https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-companion#install

Bonus points for a gif!

Thank you ❤️

[olizilla]

[olizilla]

Brave

ipfs-companion works in Brave. To try it out today you need to run brave from source, but we are working with Brave to get seamless IPFS support working out of the box. Track our progress here

• Configure your local ipfs gateway to run on port 9090 (the default, port 8080, conflicts with the brave webpack dev server)
• Clone and build ipfs-companion as above
• Clone brave/browser-laptop
• Symlink the ipfs-companion/add-on dir to browser-laptop/app/extensions/ipfs
• Add the following to browser-laptop/app/extensions.js

  // Enable IPFS
  extensionInfo.setState('ipfs', extensionStates.REGISTERED)
  loadExtension('ipfs', getExtensionsPath('ipfs'), undefined, 'component')

https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/browser-laptop/blob/66f38870fced0dbc55aae7fe1ed905bff602f88e/app/extensions.js#L500-L502

• In the browser-laptop project run npm install then in separate shells run npm run watch and npm start. If you have any trouble running Brave from source, check: https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop#installation

Brave will start up and you should see a badge with your number of connected ipfs peers next to the brave button, top right. (the ipfs-companion badge currently doesn't appear). Click on the badge and update your gateway settings to use port 9090, then go share something with your peers...