react-native-gomobile-ipfs

React Native bindings for ipfs-shipyard/gomobile-ipfs

Getting started

$ yarn add react-native-gomobile-ipfs

Android

Add gomobile-ipfs maven repository to your android/build.gradle repositories section

maven {
  url 'https://dl.bintray.com/berty/gomobile-ipfs-android'
}

Usage

// Import library
import {IPFS} from 'react-native-gomobile-ipfs';

// Create instance of IPFS. Use one instance per app.
const ipfs = await IPFS.create();

// Start IPFS instance. It will connect to the network.
await ipfs.start();

// Create IPFS request. Check IPFS HTTP API docs.
var req = await ipfs.newRequest('cat');

// Add argument to request
req = await req.withArgument('/ipns/xkcd.hacdias.com/0176/image.png');

// Send request.
const image = await req.send();

// Remove request object from memory. Don't forget or you will have memory leak.
// IPFS object also has `free` method.
await req.free();

// Print binary data of the image
console.log('Image', data);