Prototype implementation of IPNS-Link.
Expose dynamic site / web app / server-side code with IPNS. Run your http-server at localhost and get a URL that is basically an IPNS key. Put the key at any IPFS gateway (e.g. https://ipfs.io) or IPNS-Link-Gateway (e.g. https://ipns.live) in your browser and your site loads.
See Manual.
Follow Quick-Start.
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This is just a proof-of-concept and is by no means foolproof. Although it mostly works, optimizations and enhancements are possible.
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To keep things simple, Manifest encryption and HLS stream using IPNS have been left out for now.
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Those who turn away from IPFS because of its huge bandwidth consumption need not worry. IPNS-Link takes great pains to work around this.
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If your website contains relative URLs of the form
/ipfs/CIDhash, IPNS-Link serves the corresponding resources from IPFS, decreasing the load on your server. -
You can configure IPNS-Link to serve all static content in your website, such as images, CSS and javascripts, from IPFS thus effectively acting as a CDN.
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IPNS-Link uses IPFS's built in NAT traversal tools. So a public IP is not a must, but is always preferable.
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You can configure IPNS-Link to redirect visitors whenever your machine goes offline for a while. So even intermittent connectivity is workable.
