These Lessons are tested with go-ipfs version 0.5.0. Please update this file on github to reflect any other versions that have been tested.
- You should have some familiarity with the command line.
- You should have
ipfsinstalled - the previous tutorial has instructions for that
These Lessons will teach you how to
- Add files to your local IPFS node
- Read files out of your local IPFS node
- List the files in your IPFS node
- Tell IPFS to hold onto files by pinning them
- Distinction between IPFS and your regular Filesystem
- Identifying files by their Hashes
- IPFS Garbage Collection
- Pinning files on an IPFS Node
- Lesson: Add Content to IPFS and Retrieve It
- Lesson: Wrap Filenames and Directory Info around Content in IPFS
- Lesson: Pinning - Tell IPFS to Keep a File
Once you know how to add files to IPFS and retrieve them, you will be ready to share those files on the P2P network following the Tutorial: Going Online - Joining the Distributed Web
If you're wondering how to update those files after you've shared them, see the Tutorial: Publishing Changes on the Permanent Web
If you want to see how to access those files from the conventional HTTP web, go to the Tutorial: Interacting with the Classical (HTTP) Web
If you want to know more about how IPFS stores this content intrernally using Merkle DAGs, go to the Tutorial: Merkle Trees and the IPFS DAG