npm on IPFS

Alex Potsides

JavaScript Developer at Protocol Labs

Working on IPFS

@achingbrain on GitHub and Twitter

npm install --registry=https://registry.js.ipfs.io
yarn --registry=https://registry.js.ipfs.io

ipfs-npm

npm install -g ipfs-npm
ipfs-npm install

or

ipfs-yarn

Demo

Next

Distributed publishing

  • https://github.com/zkat/pacote/pull/173
  • Publish a packument over IPNS
    • "my-module": "ipns://Qmfoo#^1.0.0"

    npm-in-a-box

  • A local-network npm proxy on a Raspberry Pi
  • Cache npm modules for you
  • Connected to the IPFS network
  • Publish IPNS names for your published modules
  • IPFS Camp Science Fair Project!

    • Thanks!

    https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs
    https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/npm-on-ipfs
    https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-npm-registry-mirror

    Alex Potsides

    @achingbrain

    Q&A

    https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs
    https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/npm-on-ipfs
    https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-npm-registry-mirror

    Alex Potsides

    @achingbrain