ipfs/js-ipfs on Hacker News

…https://discuss.ipfs.tech/t/moved-ipfs-node-result-netscan-d... https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/issues/3982 https://github.com/filecoin-project/lassie/issues/121 https://github.com/covalenthq/refiner/issues/140

comment by ranger_danger · 2025-08-16 · in OpenFreeMap survived 100k requests per second

…were ever resolved. I've been watching https://github.com/ipfs/helia which is going to replace https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs and hoping they can get an IPFS node working in the browser.

comment by evbogue · 2023-10-03 · in Amino – The Public IPFS DHT Is Getting a Facelift

also, to the author, make sure you turn _off_ persistent local storage, the performance is horrific ( https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/issues/4045 ) - maybe helia is better?

comment by hacliff · 2023-06-05 · in Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS

…Extension[1], how has nobody done the same for an arguably easier protocol like Activity Pub? 1: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs

comment by tetris11 · 2023-03-06 · in Activity Pub vs. Web Frameworks

Store the content in ipfs and just put the hash in the URL? I haven't used https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs in this capacity but I'm under the impression that that's moving bits around like that is more or less its purpose. Although I…

comment by __MatrixMan__ · 2023-01-09 · in How to store your app's entire state in the url

…whether IPFS might be a good answer to that - there is this, which supposedly works in the browser. https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs Dump webrtc metadata onto ipfs, give the user the hash back as a "document key" (and maybe a password that…

comment by smallerfish · 2022-02-15 · in Don't rely on LocalStorage

…I don't know if that then translates to only downloading that part of the file from IPFS or not. https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/blob/master/docs/core-api/FI... EDIT2: In fact the `ipfs.cat` api that the OP is using takes `offset` and…

comment by samwillis · 2022-01-13 · in Database-less torrent website

…and Cloudflare does a free IPFS gateway. https://blog.cloudflare.com/distributed-web-gateway/ https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/blob/master/examples/browser... Recoding seems like a candidate for distributed computing, and a way for fans to…

comment by snthd · 2019-05-19 · in “A company is copyright-claiming every video I have ever made”

…late here (2:43 AM) but I would happily respond to your questions & comments in the morning. [0]: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs

comment by boramalper · 2019-04-04 · in Show HN: Deima – Decentralised Image Hosting Using IPFS

…advancements have been made in that direction! [0]: https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent [1]: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs [2]: https://joinpeertube.org/en/ [3]: https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db

comment by boramalper · 2019-01-01 · in “In 2018 the blockchain/decentralization story fell apart”

…the article content. Bug has been reported to the js-ipfs guys and a pull request has been merged: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/pull/1693 That was instructive and I'm glad the experience has resulted in people getting interested,…

comment by vitriolum · 2018-11-05 · in Show HN: Vitriol – a distributed, serverless web publishing platform

…to get that magic IPFS experience. If you want to track progress or contribute, please follow: DHT: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/pull/856 Relay: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/pull/1063 This stuff is alpha at this point, and sometimes…

comment by vitriolum · 2018-11-05 · in Show HN: Vitriol – a distributed, serverless web publishing platform

…to be a hash of the content. A similar approach can happen on BT mainline w/ an infohash maybe. 0 - https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/pull/856

comment by kodablah · 2018-10-12 · in Show HN: WebRTC signalling data using QR codes

…browser I researched different codecs that are available on the web for streaming and came across: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/tree/master/examples/browser... I though, why not make this a SaaS.

comment by timdaub · 2018-10-03 · in Show HN: A website that converts any IPFS file to HLS and reups it to IPFS

I just came back from a run and the website was down. Sorry. It's up again. Utility: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/tree/master/examples/browser...

comment by timdaub · 2018-10-03 · in Show HN: A website that converts any IPFS file to HLS and reups it to IPFS

> The PR to implement DHT has been languishing since May 2017: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/pull/856/files But it just received an update 4 days ago! :)

comment by asymmetric · 2018-06-08 · in WebRTC Chat on IPFS

This was very interesting, but sadly: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/tree/master/examples/exchang... > Note: As js-ipfs@0.29.0 currently doesn't support DHT peer discovery, the peer from which you are fetching data should be within the…

comment by sillysaurus3 · 2018-06-08 · in WebRTC Chat on IPFS

> We can't expect each client to have an ipfs client installed. Couldn't they serve [js-ipfs]( https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs )? AFAIK that would make every user of the web app run an IPFS node.

comment by asymmetric · 2018-06-08 · in WebRTC Chat on IPFS

…implementation, this is not recommended as it is currently pretty resource heavy [3]. [1] https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs [2] https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion [3] https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-companion/blob/master/..…

comment by Confiks · 2018-05-29 · in Pushing the Limits of IPFS and OrbitDB

…are: https://tallylab.com/ https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db https://github.com/orbitdb/ipfs-log https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs

comment by haadcode · 2018-05-29 · in Pushing the Limits of IPFS and OrbitDB

…sense. The IPFS devs always recognized the importance of the browser though and as such js-ipfs ( https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs ) has always been a first-class implementation of IPFS. With js-ipfs, the IPFS protocol works in the browser…

comment by haadcode · 2018-05-29 · in Pushing the Limits of IPFS and OrbitDB

…over, say, IPFS? I considered doing something similar using their JavaScript client[0]. [0]: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs

comment by colatkinson · 2018-05-14 · in Show HN: I built a peer-to-peer publishing platform

…work in the browser. Notably DHT and relaying does not. See the repository's "Please read this" at https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/#project-status

comment by kodablah · 2018-02-21 · in Paper review: IPFS – Content addressed, versioned, P2P file system

…(I am aware of efforts on both fronts of course). 0 - https://github.com/ipfs/notes/issues/64 1 - https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/pull/856 2 - https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/issues/1179

comment by kodablah · 2018-02-21 · in Paper review: IPFS – Content addressed, versioned, P2P file system

…to and someone can point you in the right direction. Otherwise, assuming you know JavaScript, https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissu... is a great place to start. If you have some Golang experience,…

comment by diggan · 2018-02-01 · in Show HN: A Decentralized StatusPage on IPFS

…how you can connect a js-ipfs node with other nodes, like go-ipfs that runs on desktop. Link: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/tree/master/examples/exchang... go-ipfs, which I guess you refer to with the mainstream network, has support for…

comment by diggan · 2018-01-25 · in PeerTube – Federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in the browser

It surely does, take a look at js-ipfs for full in-browser node ( https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs ) and also js-ipfs-api for communicating with existing go-ipfs/js-ipfs nodes ( https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-api ) Disclaimer: I work at…

comment by diggan · 2018-01-24 · in PeerTube – Federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in the browser

…and ready to be used. Currently, PeerPad only uses the JavaScript implementation of IPFS ( https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs ) but using a local daemon if it exists makes sense. > How do they prevent the data from disappearing if everyone…

comment by diggan · 2017-11-04 · in PeerPad – A realtime P2P collaborative editing tool powered by IPFS

There's an alpha implementation of the IPFS and libp2p stack here: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs and https://github.com/libp2p/js-libp2p

comment by lgierth · 2017-08-11 · in SoundCloud faces do-or-die vote by investors

…or how to add that a repository is a dependency to another. Anyone know what that is about? [0] - https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/network/dependents - http://i.imgur.com/USSLz3U.png

comment by diggan · 2017-02-03 · in Exploring Unseen Open Source Infrastructure

…is (1) seamless support for fs:/ipfs/somehash URIs, and (2) to offer the ipfs APIs to webpages. * https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs * https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ipfs-gateway-...

comment by lgierth · 2017-01-19 · in Distributing NixOS with IPFS

…currently speak WebRTC to peer with other js-ipfs nodes, and websockets to peer with go-ipfs nodes. https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs

comment by lgierth · 2016-11-18 · in WikipediaP2P

…github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/commit/e1c40dfa347e38bdc9812... and we're working to get it into js-ipfs here https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/issues/530 .

comment by haadcode · 2016-10-23 · in IPFS is the Distributed Web

…soon. This will open a lot of doors for a more advanced network and applications using IPFS. See https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs . As for your question re. ipfs.io using js-ipfs, the answers is no, it doesn't use js-ipfs implementation yet.

comment by haadcode · 2016-10-23 · in IPFS is the Distributed Web

…rolling it out, yet. To check the latest updates on the project and learn whats next, check our log https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/issues/30#issuecomment-22604... [0] - libp2p is the network stack of IPFS, also a standalone project…

comment by daviddias · 2016-06-15 · in Serverless Sync in Web Apps Using Bit Torrent

…has access to the tracker infrastructure, and thus isn't as decentralized as one might think. [1] https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/blob/master/ROADMAP.md [2] https://github.com/feross/webtorrent/issues/288

comment by lewisl9029 · 2016-06-15 · in Serverless Sync in Web Apps Using Bit Torrent

…prime time (though it's close) and the author had a requirement to do everything from a browser. https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/

comment by kodablah · 2016-06-14 · in Serverless Sync in Web Apps Using Bit Torrent

Don't forget: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs

comment by basemi · 2016-04-26 · in Up-and-coming JavaScript frameworks and libraries to watch out for in 2016

…ambitious goals. And the IPFS team is also working on JS implementation that will run in browser: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs .

comment by Fice · 2015-12-09 · in Hyperdrive – a novel file sharing network