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+'use strict'
+
+const fs = require('fs')
+const os = require('os')
+const path = require('path')
+const promisify = require('promisify-es6')
+// const IPFS = require('../../src/core')
+// replace this by line below if you are using ipfs as a dependency of your
+// project
+const IPFS = require('ipfs')
+
+/*
+ * Create a new IPFS instance, using default repo (fs) on default path (~/.ipfs)
+ */
+const node = new IPFS({
+  repo: path.join(os.tmpdir() + '/' + new Date().toString()),
+  init: false,
+  start: false,
+  EXPERIMENTAL: {
+    pubsub: false
+  }
+})
+
+const fileToAdd = {
+  path: 'hello.txt',
+  content: fs.createReadStream('./hello.txt')
+}
+
+/*
+ * Display version of js-ipfs
+ */
+node.version()
+  .then((version) => {
+    console.log('IPFS Version:', version.version)
+    return Promise.resolve()
+  })
+
+  /*
+   * Initialize the repo for this node
+   */
+  .then(() => {
+    // we need to promisify node.init to return a promise 
+    return promisify(node.init)({ emptyRepo: true, bits: 2048 })
+  })
+
+  /*
+   * Take the node online (bitswap, network and so on)
+   */
+  .then(() => {
+    // we need to promisify node.start to return a promise 
+    return promisify(node.start)()
+  })
+
+  /* 
+   * Add a file to IPFS - Complete Files API on:
+   * https://github.com/ipfs/interface-ipfs-core/tree/master/API/files
+   */
+  .then(() => {
+    if (node.isOnline()) {
+      console.log('\nNode is now ready and online')
+    }
+    return node.files.add(fileToAdd)
+  })
+
+  .then((result) => {
+    let file = result[0]
+    console.log('\nAdded file:')
+    console.log(file)
+    let fileMultihash = file.hash
+    return Promise.resolve(fileMultihash)
+  })
+
+  /*
+   * Awesome we've added a file so let's retrieve and
+   * display its contents from IPFS
+   */
+  .then((fileMultihash) => {
+    return node.files.cat(fileMultihash)
+  })
+
+  .then((stream) => {
+    console.log('\nFile content:')
+    stream.pipe(process.stdout)
+    stream.on('end', process.exit)
+    return Promise.resolve()
+  })
+
+  .then(() => {
+    console.log('Success!')
+  })
+
+  .catch((err) => {
+    console.log(err)
+  })