DwebObjects

Object library for higher level Decentralized Web concepts. Builds on dweb-transports.

Background

This library is part of a general project at the Internet Archive (archive.org)
to support the decentralized web.

Goals

* to allow a API that can be used to build functionality in the Dweb easier.

Installation and usage in the Browser

* Install npm & node
* Clone this repo and cd to it.
* npm build will create dist/dweb-transports-bundle and dweb-objects-bundle.js
* npm setuphttp will setup some links we haven't persuaded webpack to do!

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The examples can run either from the dweb.me/examples server,
or once the source is checked out, locally from your file system.

By default each of these examples runs multiple transports, and is smart if it cannot connect to one or the other.

- Simple text creation and retrieval: example_block.html
- Simple dict creation and retrieval: example_smartdict.html
- List creation and retrieval: example_list.html
- UI for Academic docs - centralised search; decentralized retrieval: []example_academic.html](https://dweb.me/examples/example_academic.html)
- Authentication: Managing locks and keys example_keys.html
- Versions of a single document: example_versions.html
- objbrowser.html

Browser Support: This should work on Chrome and Firefox (Safari doesn't support many newer features but appears to work),

Transport choice: You can deselect transports by clicking the Green indicator on an example.
To prevent it connecting in the firstplace, you can supply paused=HTTP or paused=IPFS or paused=WEBTORRENT or paused=YJS to the url.

Verbosity: You can get debugging output by setting localStorage.debug=("dweb-objects: dweb-transports:") in your javascript console, you should only have to set this once.

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* Add to your

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See the examples in the dist directory of this repo for some example code.

See API.md for the detailed API.

Node Installation

* Clone this repo.

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Add to package.json in the dependencies section.
`
"@internetarchive/dweb-transports": "latest",
"@internetarchive/dweb-objects": "latest",
`

* npm install will then install dweb-objects and dweb-transports which currently includes IPFS, WebTorrent, Gun, YJS

In your application javascript, in this order.
`
const DwebTransports = require('@internetarchive/dweb-transport') #adds the transports
const DwebObjects = require('@internetarchive/dweb-objects;) #adds the object library
``

* TODO writeup how to require only some of the transports.
* Then see usage API below

See also

See Dweb document index for a list of the repos that make up the Internet Archive's Dweb project, and an index of other documents.

Release Notes

* 0.1.23 2019-06-18 Local root tree instead of fetching with contenthash
* 0.1.22 Include Wolk changes to names