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One thing I've never understood is how IPFS would serve dynamic content. Like imagine building amazon.com on IPFS how would that work? Every single page served

One thing I've never understood is how IPFS would serve dynamic content. Like imagine building amazon.com on IPFS how would that work? Every single page served would have Different hash, because the content is always changing.

domainkiller 9y ago
Wouldn't a single-page-app connected to a remote datastore work?
- hossbeast 9y ago
  Alright but all of the complexity, and all of the content served, is in the data store, and now what is IPFS even accomplishing?
  - witten 9y ago
    What if the data store is built on IPFS as well? For instance, https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db
marknadal 9y ago
The next step after DAGs is CRDTs. They have a research page on this: https://github.com/ipfs/research-CRDT https://github.com/ipfs/research-CRDT One of them is us (https://github.com/amark/gun https://github.com/amark/gun), David reached out the other week, now we're trying to find time to discuss with Juan how to best integrate.
- xrd 9y ago
  That's exciting that Gun is looking up adopt CRDT. Is that what you are saying? A real open source competitor to Google Firebase.
  - marknadal 9y ago
    Thanks! GUN is already a CRDT (it is a generalizable CRDT on graphs), which is why IPFS is chatting with us. Our CRDT has an emergent property of composability though, which lets other specialized CRDTs be implemented on top in just a few lines of code (take this example, of a counter CRDT: https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/snippets-(v0.3.x)#counter https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/snippets-(v0.3.x)#counter ).
fiatjaf 9y ago
It isn't supposed to do that. It isn't supposed to replace the entire internet nor even the entire web. This "primer do the decentralized web" title is just bullshit.