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- Read the docs
- Look into other examples to learn how to spawn a Helia node in Node.js and in the Browser
- 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
Feel free to jump directly into the examples, however going through the following sections will help build context and background knowledge.
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.
- Circuit Relay - configuring Circuit Relay connections
- Connection Encryption - how to encrypt connection between libp2p nodes
- Delegated routing - how to offload network operations and queries onto more capable nodes
- Discovery mechanisms - how libp2p discovers other peers on the network
- Custom protocols - how to create a custom protocol for your application
- Chat - a simple chat app
- Browser Pub/Sub - Using Pub/Sub between browsers
There are a number of ways libp2p can be used in the browser. Here are some examples:
- webRTC
- websockets (example pending)
- webtransport (example pending)
There is also universal connectivity demo that shows of how many different libp2p implementations can be connected together.
- js-libp2p docs
- libp2p.io
- docs.libp2p.io
- Specifications
- Discussion Forums
- Talks
- Articles
See CONTRIBUTING.md.
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- Apache 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE / http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
- MIT (LICENSE-MIT / http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)