How to push/load image file from/to IPFS using Javascript. Examples (PART II)

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In this post, we want to show how IPFS works using only HTML and Javascript (This is not another Node.js server example code…)

In this example we only push 1 text file and we read it. ( see it working)

The code is similar to the previous post.

Continuing, if you inspect the code, you will see we load always the script resource:

https://unpkg.com/ipfs/dist/index.js

And then we wait the loading of IPFS to start the push of file and the read of it after that.

const repoPath = 'ipfs-' + Math.random()
const ipfs = new Ipfs({ repo: repoPath })


ipfs.on('ready', () => {
    const files = [
    {
        path: 'MrAddon.txt',
        content: ipfs.types.Buffer.from('MrAddon Rocks', 'utf8')
    }
    ]

    ipfs.files.add(files, function (err, files) {
        //ipfsPath = files[0].hash;
        log("Storing file MrAddon.txt on IPFS using Javascript. HASH:" + files[0].hash);
        ipfsPath = files[0].hash
        ipfs.files.cat(ipfsPath, function (err, file) {
        if (err) {
            throw err
        }
            log("Content of HASH retrieved from IPFS: " + file.toString('utf8'));
        })
    })
    
    const log = (line) => {
        document.getElementById('output').appendChild(document.createTextNode(`${line}\r\n`))
    }
    
    
})

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