IPFS Repo JavaScript Implementation

[daviddias]

ipfs-repo is the module that implements and offers the functionality offer in repo spec

git repo: https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-repo

It should work natively using the fs or in the browser using local storage

js-ipfs-repo should be able to grab an ipfs repo generated by go-ipfs and manipulate it without breaking interopability.

[RichardLitt]

Thanks for this issue: added the repository to the project directory in ipfs/ipfs in ipfs/ipfs#116.

[daviddias]

js-ipfs-repo repo https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-repo

Where you can help:

• https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs-repo/issues

thank you :)

[daviddias]

Update:

Currently we have a working IPFS Repo implementation and @xicombd has helped getting that working on the browser as well. There is a bug however, which is that values being stored in localStorage are being converted to utf8 strings, adding a lot of information that is not required, making the buffer bigger (breaking the hash, size and so on).

We changed local-storage-blob-store to use hex strings, so that we could encode/decode that binary data, but that made some js-ipfs tests fail in the browser (although it passes all the abstract-blob-store tests). See https://github.com/xicombd/local-storage-blob-store/blob/master/index.js#L28 and run the browser tests in this repo by npm run test:browser

[daviddias]

Update: ways you can help

• Up the code coverage (now at 90%)
• Tests for storing binary data through the datastore (blocks)
• Help document the items that are currently stored in go-ipfs levelDB Document on the IPFS Repo Spec, the things we store on Datastore js-ipfs-repo#21
• Create repo init feature (start each repo, put default files in each)