- Create your own decentralized blog with your own decentralized identity (currently only Metamask is supported).
- Add other identities to allow writing/admin permissions to the blog.
- Upload images to IPFS as attachments for the post.
- Images stored anywhere on IPFS can be embedded inside markdown using IPFS CID instead of filename.
- (Roadmap) Pin image CIDs and OrbitDB CIDs on Aleph-IM / Ar-Weave.
- (Roadmap) Uploaded images can be minted as NFT and sold on the integrated marketplace.
- (Roadmap) Running a Puppeteer-JS headless browser inside mobile app / or the project inside React-Native headless JS.
- (Roadmap) Writing comments (everybody allowed).
- (Roadmap) Writing comments only against BTC deposit to prevent spam.
- (Roadmap) Create several React-UI components to display featured posts and/or posts with a certain tag.
- https://ipfs.le-space.de/ipns/decentrasol.network / https://decentrasol.network
- https://ipfs.le-space.de/ipns/nicokrause.com / https://nicokrause.com
- Use Node 18.x.
- Clone this repository.
- Run
yarn. - Create .env file with the following contents to configure your OrbitDB blog:
TITLE=Welcome to MyBlog
AUTHOR=SilkroadNomad
SUMMARY=A new travel blog about the silkroad
SOCIAL=https://twitter.com/SilkRoadNomadX
#DB_NAME=/orbitdb/zdpuAoRJtgSTi1SjHuzC9o5Nvg81eZxoDb2PoC82DXLHDt2EB/myblog01
DB_NAME=myblog01
- Run
yarn start. - Open browser on http://localhost:8080.
- As soon as the blog is up - click on the upper right button and copy your dbAddress e.g. /orbitdb/zdpuAyxUrPnAgQfPy5fDGrsVukxQr5sHQ6DXVX5CHdqdV4o7W/myblog01.
- Replace in your .env
DB_NAME=myblog01with your real blog address. - Restart blog.
- Create your first post.
- Click on post / edit post and upload a photo into the drag & drop zone.
- Add some markdown.
- Any uploaded image can be added with the CID.
- Open a second browser with the same URL to see if both browsers replicate (new browser should receive all posts from first browser).
- Connect with Metamask and add Metamask address (ETH address to write permissions) possible only from first browser!
- Check out permissions handling.
- Please send me feedback @silkroadnomadx.
- You need to leave your blogs browser tab open of one device if you want to run this blog in production deployment (I did for some time ;)
- Pinning this OrbitDb with a PinningService which is automatically replicating the OrbitDB was not yet fully successful
- Run
yarn build. - Run
ipfs add distupdate DNS with new CID.
- Check WebTransport to connect to Go-IPFS.
- IPFS auto-pin uploaded media to own pinning service.
- (Auto) Pin project on IPFS - Orbit-pinning service.
- Show currently connected peers.
-
Improve Settings-Drawer UI.
-
Index-Page modifications.
- Alternative blog index view with cards + headline e.g. like https://bobbyhadz.com/.
- Display author (identity) next to post (simply ID).
- Responsive mobile navigation Chakra-UI (e.g. about page displaying a certain post).
-
View Edit/Create Post page.
- Bug: When deleting media from post it's deleting a wrong media from Orbit (last first - wrong index).
- Display author (identity) next to post (simply ID).
- When deleting a post, ask user before action.
- Bug: When using navigation, it's not possible to add new media - identity seems not correct.
- Add comments (make writable to everybody).
- Add markdown editor to EditPost https://morioh.com/p/46067e5674d2.
-
Create component which lists posts of a certain tag.
-
Store profile data in Orbit-DB (bio, SEO, profile pic).
-
Store profile information under ID.
- DNS website - fallback HTML website in case my browser isn't online.
- Another user reported his Windows Defender Firewall was blocking the website.
- Some ISPs seem to restrict P2P connections.
- Running VPN connections seem to disturb connecting via Peer2Peer.
- 2022-09-25
- Delete uploaded media from post.
- Change permissions recursively also for all media threads of all posts.
- When creating new post, inherit admin and write permissions from blog.
- 2022-09-21
- Upload photos via drag & drop to a post.
- Display the photos below the post.
- 2022-09-21
- Added tag filter to URL e.g. /#/tag/yoga.
- Fixed DB address via URL in the form /#/db/{dbAddress}.
- 2022-09-21
- Hide add post box when no permission to append to log.
- Add tags to blog post (parse #tags automatically from body).
- 2022-09-19
- Run cp in console to create a new IPFS instance and a new feed with the data of current DB but new permissions.
- 2022-09-18
- Added button which opens drawer to display identity, permission and OrbitDB related information.
- 2022-09-18
- Create textbox + dropdown (admin/write) + button to add permission to current database.
- 2022-09-15
- When deleting a post - replication is informed but hard to identify the removed item.
- 2022-09-14
- Show capabilities (admin/write permissions) under settings.
- 2022-09-13
- New branch 'did' with an identity which can write from two different browsers.
- New branch 'eth-identity' with an identity which can write from two different browsers.
- Use identity of Metamask https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db-identity-provider#creating-an-identity-with-an-ethereum-wallet.
- Make blog only writable by my (Metamask) identity.
- 2022-08-27
- Sort posts by date (latest on top).
- Fixed title of main page via Helmet / SEO component (bio.js).
- 2022-08-26
- Bug: Cannot delete nor edit first post.
- 2022-08-25
- Set database name in env.
- 2022-08-08
- Add Moment.js.
- Added Chakra V1.
- React examples https://codesandbox.io/examples/package/@chakra-ui/react.
- Chakra show case https://chakra-ui.com/community/showcase.
- Migration of Chakra libs https://v1.chakra-ui.com/guides/migration.
- 2022-08-06
- Upgrade to React@18.
- 2022-08-05
- Link IPFS hash with DNS name.
- Store blog on IPFS.
- 2022-08-04
- Previous post / next post.
- 2022-08-03
- Save post / edit post.
- Delete post.
- Use markdown for rendering body https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-markdown#install.
- 2022-08-02
- Rerender post subject and body while typing.
- 2022-07-30 - Add post.
- 2022-07-29 - Show post.