Welcome to the Textile documentation. Whether you are an expert or an absolute beginner, you'll find your answers here. Pick a starting point below, or use the search box to find documents matching your keywords.

Textile is designed to connect and extend Libp2p, IPFS, and Filecoin. Below, you'll find the three technologies that makeup Textile: the Hub, ThreadDB, and the Powergate. Together, these tools should help you build apps that are only limited by your imagination!

The Hub

The Hub is a portal to the IPFS network. Use Textile's managed services to persist your data on the IPFS network, enhance the speed and availability of your decentralized databases, and more. The Hub has APIs for developers and teams to push data to the network and it has developer libraries to provide remote IPFS pinning in your apps or simplify the deployment of our decentralized database, ThreadDB.

Start building

Introduction

Learn more about using the Textile Hub.

App APIs

Use Threads & Buckets to persist data on IPFS from your apps.

App Building

Read a tutorial on building apps using the Hub.

Buckets

Buckets are a new way to pin data to IPFS (and soon, store it to Filecoin). Buckets are dynamic folders published simultaneously over IPFS, IPNS, and HTTP. Buckets are designed to make it simple for you to create folders of data and push that data to remote IPFS peers for backup, persistence, or sharing. They can be encrypted or public, they can be single or multi-user, and they can be used from the CLI or with the Go or JavaScript libraries.

Push your buckets

Introduction

Learn more about using the Buckets.

Buckets in Apps

Read about adding buckets to your app for users.

Buckets JavaScript

Jump over to the JavaScript documentation.

ThreadDB

ThreadDB is a secure, decentralized, p2p database built on IPFS and Libp2p. Developers use ThreadDB so they can spend less time configuring encryption or managing content addresses, instead ThreadDB allows them to start building right away. A familiar MongoDB/Mongoose API and simple data hosting services make dynamic data on the DWeb easy!

Learn more

Introduction

Learn about ThreadDB and how to use them in your app.

App APIs

Use the Hub to help persist and scale your user's databases.

JavaScript Docs

Start using the ThreadDB in your NodeJS and browser apps.

Start building

JS Todo App

Build a Todo app with Textile Thread pinning services.

Go Chat App

Build a multi-user chat app in Go.

Filecoin Powergate

The Powergate is just warming up! The Powergate is an API driven solution to deploy hybrid Filecoin and IPFS storage into your app. If you are eager to learn more about what we are up to, we invite you to follow our regular community updates or follow along in the the open-source repo. If you want to jump right in, follow one of the links below.

Dive into Filecoin

System overview

Multitiered file storage API built on Filecoin and IPFS.

Spin-up the Localnet

You can test, explore, and build on all the Filecoin APIs today with Localnet

POW JS Client

Typescript/Javascript client for Textile's Powergate .

Other Resources

Join our public Slack, visit our GitHub, follow us on Twitter, and check out the Blog!

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Thanks!

To all of the great people who have contributed to the Textile projects recently.