dasl.ing #

DASL (Data-Addressed Structures, pronounced "dazzle") is a small set of simple, standard primitives for working with content-addressed, linked data. The design is inspired by subcomponents of the IPFS universe, but simplified to improve interoperability, decrease costs, and work well with the web.

This repository generates a website containing the DASL specs and more. Go to https://dasl.ing/ to read it!

Contributing #

Contributions are welcome! Here's how you can help:

• Feedback, questions, or bugs: Create an issue
• Minor fixes: Feel free to open a PR directly
• Larger changes or new specs: Please start with an issue describing your proposal
• Join a call: Monthly sessions on Luma

Developing #

The site is generated by SISL (sisl.js) into build/, which is gitignored and never committed. Every .html file in the root is a spec source; the build turns each one into a published .html and .md under build/, next to a processed index.html and the static files (CSS, fonts, banners). Deploys ship build/ and nothing else, so the spec sources, SISL's databases (bibliography.json, people.json, maturities.json) and the tooling never reach the server.

A spec's maturity lives in maturities.json. It drives both the status on the spec's own page and the label beside it in the index's spec list, so don't write those labels into index.html by hand.

To work on the site locally, run two commands in separate terminals:

• npm run watch will re-generate build/ on save
• npm run dev in a second terminal will open up a static server on build/. The static server does not hot-reload, so you'll need to refresh the page to see changes.

Please note that this project follows the IPFS Code of Conduct. Happy hacking!