Reddit IPFS is a PoC of a the famous social network Reddit built only using distributed storage. It is not meant for production and is only inteded to proove that a Minimum Viable Product can works good and fast.
This PoC have:
- An API use to interact with plebbit (The documentation can be found in the get route docs)
- A front-end serverless done in ReactTS recreating a simple functionnal reddit
- Three different scripts helping creating a fake dataset used for the PoC in nodejs
We use IPFS and IPNS to create the data structure with so far not a recursive data structure like Reddit does for comments of comments etc ...
Here is a schema of how it works:
The IPFS ID is the key we use to create a IPNS file to have a one and only file
To install this project, you're going to need NodeJS, Yarn and Kubo
You need to execute the command bellow inside api directory
yarn install
Then you can launch the ipfs node with:
ipfs daemon
And finally launch the API using the command bellow inside the api directory:
yarn build yarn start
Or you can simply use the docker-compose by this command:
docker-compose up
IPFS_APIDefine the URL of the IPFS Node usedREDDIT_KEYDefine the IPFS KEY of the RedditREDDIT_CIDDefine the IPFS CID of the Reddit
To install this project, you're going to need the api running
You need to execute the command bellow inside scripts directory
yarn install
And then you can launch the script that you wants by using the command bellow inside the scripts directory:
yarn subs yarn posts yarn comments
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