If you are new to the Distributed Press project, please visit our project website and project wiki for background context.

A Distributed Press server instance is provisioned with access to the World Wide Web (WWW) and Distributed Web (DWeb), and runs the Distributed Press API. An instance can be provisioned using this ansible.

A project may use the Distributed Press API of this server to publish its website, and the server will:

• host the project website on WWW and seed it to DWeb networks (i.e. Hypercore, IPFS)
• serve the Distributed Press API on WWW and seed GET responses to the DWeb networks

The Distributed Press is in early development, and is currently used to publish the COMPOST magazine. The official instance of the Distributed Press API is hosted at api.distributed.press.

Developing

1. (Only once) Install dependencies: npm i
2. (Only once) Create an RSA keypair for signing JWTs: npm run keygen
3. To get the admin JWT that can be used to bootstrap other admin accounts, run npm run make-admin. This should only be used once to create actual admins (e.g. individuals in your organization who have the ability to add/edit publishers).
4. Running the server:
5. Normal: npm run dev
6. Watch for changes: npm run watch
7. Running tests: npm test

Troubleshooting

Try nuking the cache and protocol configs by running npm run nuke. Note you will reset the history for all your domains.