Intro to IPFS

Learning Objectives

After this workshop you will know how to

• Install and Initialize IPFS
• Add Files into IPFS and Read them out of IPFS
• Explain how IPFS uses Merkle DAGs to store Files

Prerequisites

• You should be familiar with the command line.

Lessons

These lessons are all part of the Decentralized Web Primer, which is a work in progress. Most of the lessons in the primer are unfinished, but the ones we’re using are ready to go.

1. Tutorial 1: Install and Initialize IPFS — do lessons 1 & 2.
2. Tutorial 2: Files on IPFS — do lessons 1 & 2, but skip lesson 3 on “pinning”
3. Tutorial 3: do only the lesson “Turn a File into a Merkle Tree”