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Why IPFS?

Welcome! If you’re new to IPFS, you’ve come to the right place. Before understanding what is IPFS, let's first see why do we need IPFS in the first place? Let’s say you’re doing some research on cats. You might start by visiting the Wikipedia

Examples

Interactive Tutorials You can checkout Interactive Concept Tutorials in which you can learn about the concepts behind IPFS and decentralized web in general, by writing code and solving challenges. Onward to Tutorials Basic Examples These are a few examples that cover various ways to use IPFS. * Configuring Your Node * Dealing

Going Online

In this lesson we are going to: * Connect your local IPFS node to the public network. * Uploading data to the public IPFS network. * Fetching data from public IPFS network. * Using GUI to visualize IPFS local repo, network activities, etc. If you have not installed IPFS yet, go to install section.

Initialize your IPFS Repository

In this lesson we are going to: * Initialize a local IPFS repository * Use IPFS to explore the post-install documentation * Locate where IPFS stores the contents of your local IPFS repository * Open and understand the IPFS Configuration file If you don't have IPFS installed on your device, then install

Installing IPFS

There are a variety of ways to install a copy of IPFS on your system. We generally recommend installing a prebuilt package, but here are a few other supported options: * Installing from a Prebuilt Package (recommended) * Installing with ipfs-update * Building from source * Upgrading IPFS * Troubleshooting Note these instructions all make