Start gateway from NodeJS

[paulogr]

I've been looking at code but haven't found a way to start the gateway from NodeJS.

new IPFS() only starts the IPFS node but not the gateway.

Thanks

[victorb]

Something like this should work (it also starts a js-ipfs node for using with the gateway):

const Gateway = require('ipfs/src/http')

const gateway = new Gateway('./path-to-ipfs-repo')
gateway.start(true, () => {
  console.log('Gateway now running')
})

The function for starting the gateway is here:

js-ipfs/src/http/index.js

Line 19 in d16a129

function HttpApi (repo, config, cliArgs) {

[paulogr]

Thank you for awswer.

I saw this class HttpApi, but isn't exposed to be consumed, right?
Is there any reason?

[daviddias]

@paulogr you can use https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfsd-ctl to spawn js-ipfs daemons which then expose the gateway. Would that work for you?

[paulogr]

Proprably it works for me, yeah.
I'll make some tests, closing for now.

Thank you for answer.