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Wait, what? js-ipfs runs in the browser just fine. See https://filemap.xyz/ https://filemap.xyz/.

• kodablah 9y ago
  Only some features work in the browser. Notably DHT and relaying does not. See the repository's "Please read this" at https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/#project-status https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/#project-status
  • yoshuaw 9y ago
    An in-browser DHT cannot be created until until we can have something that's analogous to opening a port in the browser. For a DHT to work, you need to be able to able to connect to be discoverable and be able to connect to multiple peers. WebRTC unfortunately doesn't allow for this yet.
    • lgierth 9y ago
      Both js-ipfs and go-ipfs have the circuit relay which effectively makes you dialable in the browser: https://github.com/libp2p/specs/tree/master/relay https://github.com/libp2p/specs/tree/master/relay