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Fission API in ipfs-deploy

bmann

Boris Mann

Posted on October 2, 2019

Fission API in ipfs-deploy

We've had our eye on Agent of User's great ipfs-deploy tool for a while now. It is a quick way to get a static website served up through a regular Web2 domain name. It automates both IPFS uploading / pinning as well as updating DNS.

GitHub logo ipfs-shipyard / ipfs-deploy

Zero-Config CLI to Deploy Static Websites to IPFS

ipfs-deploy

standard-readme compliant Travis CI

Upload static website to IPFS pinning services and optionally update DNS.

The goal of ipfs-deploy is to make it as easy as possible to deploy a static website to IPFS.

Table of Contents

  1. Install
    1. No install
  2. Usage
    1. Supported Pinning Services
    2. Supported DNS Services
  3. API
  4. Security
  5. Contributing
    1. Contributors
    2. Add a Pinning Service
    3. Add a DNS Provider
  6. Users
  7. License

Install

npm install -g ipfs-deploy

Or

yarn global add ipfs-deploy

You can call it either as ipd or as ipfs-deploy:

ipd public/
ipfs-deploy public/

No install

You can run it directly with npx without needing to install anything:

npx ipfs-deploy _site

It will deploy to a public pinning service and give you a link to ipfs.io/ipfs/your-hash so you can check it out.

Usage

You can get started just by typing out ipd and it will have smart defaults By default, it deploys to Infura, which doesn't need signup and you'll get…

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Now that we've got our own web API that supports IPFS, we have a PR to add Fission support to ipfs-deploy. Thanks Daniel for taking this on!

"Adding support prompted us to add another feature to our web api: manipulation of InterPlanetary Linked Data (IPLD) nodes." – Daniel Holmgren

Right now we're using this ourselves for some website experiments, leaning on the Cloudflare integration in ipfs-deploy to automate DNS updates. DNS Automation is something that we're building into the Fission Suite directly, as part of our "batteries included" approach.

As well, ipfs-deploy specifically works without a local IPFS node. The direction we're going with the Fission tools is going to assume that we can run a local IPFS node everywhere that our CLI can be installed, so we'll be leaning into "native" IPFS protocol functionality. We'll be release an alpha of our Fission CLI shortly so you can check out our approach.

Read Agent of User's Complete Beginner's Guide to Deploying Your First Static Website to IPFS for the full run down on using ipfs-deploy.

Skipping to the end, you can use your Fission credentials & Cloudflare API keys to run this one liner:

ipd -p fission -d cloudflare

Tell us about your IPFS hosted website in the Talk forum >

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bmann
Boris Mann

Posted on October 2, 2019

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