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Textile Hub: databases, storage, and remote IPFS for app builders

by andrewxhill on 5/5/20, 9:21 PM with 16 comments

  • by andrewxhill on 5/5/20, 9:45 PM

    If you want to skip right to the good stuff, here's the docs, https://docs.textile.io/

  • by floren on 5/6/20, 2:37 PM

    Looks neat, I'm a little starved for Go examples in the documentation--I found a couple undocumented example programs in the repo, but I'm not spotting anything in the docs that shows how to do the basics. In fact it took me a bit to even realize there are Go libs, I had originally posted a comment asking for something like ThreadsDB in Go before I spotted the link in the hamburger menu!

  • by poletopole on 5/6/20, 2:56 PM

    I think Textile and its underlying protocols are a step forward that's actually shipping. But it looks a little like an IPFS take on Firestore, but correct me if I'm wrong. But maybe that's because I've been working on too much theory with a distributed protocol of my own for too long rather than getting my hands dirty, ha. Perfect is the enemy of good.

  • by dvasdekis on 5/6/20, 2:04 AM

    Messing around with some other IPFS-based tooling previously (I think 3Box), I found that the user had to install and be running IPFS in order to view a truly decentralised client application (or there had to be an intermediate webhost that did this for you). This, for me, removed some of the benefits of the decentralised model.

    Is the Textile toolkit able to operate directly 'on chain' via a standard web browser? Or do visitors still need to install and run executables locally in order for it to work?

    Sorry if I've inaccurately slandered 3Box here - I am still learning about this space, and I am very excited by the possibilities!

  • by onebot on 5/6/20, 9:53 AM

    This looks very interesting. It's really nice to see all these decentralized tools popping up now.

    Are there any WASM based implementation of tools? Would love to see other languages besides JS.

    One nitpick, Why would they use Slack for their chat?