Ceramic.md

Ensure you are logged in as the desirable user

sudo su to be logged in as the root user

Downloading ipfs and running locally

• https://docs.ipfs.io/install/command-line/#official-distributions
• https://docs.ipfs.io/how-to/command-line-quick-start/#troubleshooting

Steps to go through for running on a server

• https://rossbulat.medium.com/introduction-to-ipfs-set-up-nodes-on-your-network-with-http-gateways-10e21ea689a4
• https://developers.cloudflare.com/distributed-web/ipfs-gateway/setting-up-a-server

Node version

Ensure you have v14.15.4 of node running and the environment variables set properly.

Useful links:

• https://www.whitesourcesoftware.com/free-developer-tools/blog/reinstall-npm-node-js/
• https://phoenixnap.com/kb/update-node-js-version

Ensure you have all the tools for running C++ apps

On windows you may have to install https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=BuildTools

• Detailed solution at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57879150/how-can-i-solve-error-gypgyp-errerr-find-vsfind-vs-msvs-version-not-set-from-c

Install Ceramic and IDX

npm install -g @ceramicnetwork/cli @ceramicstudio/idx-cli

Run ipfs daemon first, then ceramic daemon and finally idx bootstrap

Launch a web app with the following dependencies and node modules installed

npm install @ceramicnetwork/http-client @ceramicstudio/idx 3id-connect@next

Run the app with the following code

• https://gist.github.com/aditya-vijaykumar/b2cefd0cc9797fe8e5731ac891b28f0a web3Modal file can be found at:
• https://github.com/TheRetrig/skydb-test/blob/main/src/utils/provider.js