From 7d9bff2fd34fa09986da868fe09104a60b538150 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Enrico Marino <enrico.marino@email.com>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2017 22:56:20 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Add basic example using ES7 async/await

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 examples/basics/index-es7.js | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 73 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 examples/basics/index-es7.js

diff --git a/examples/basics/index-es7.js b/examples/basics/index-es7.js
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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')
+}
+
+async function main () {
+  try {
+    /*
+     * Display version of js-ipfs
+     */
+    let version = await node.version()
+    console.log('IPFS Version:', version)
+
+    /*
+     * Initialize the repo for this node
+     */
+    await promisify(node.init)({ emptyRepo: true, bits: 2048 })
+
+    /*
+     * Take the node online (bitswap, network and so on)
+     */
+    await promisify(node.start)()
+    console.log('IPFS node is online')
+
+    /*
+     * Add a file to IPFS - Complete Files API on:
+     * https://github.com/ipfs/interface-ipfs-core/tree/master/API/files
+     */
+    let addedFiles = await node.files.add(fileToAdd)
+    let addedFile = addedFiles[0]
+    console.log('\nAdded file:')
+    console.log(addedFile)
+
+    /*
+     * Awesome we've added a file so let's retrieve and
+     * display its contents from IPFS
+     */
+    let stream = await node.files.cat(addedFile.hash)
+    console.log('\nFile content:\n')
+    stream.pipe(process.stdout)
+    stream.on('end', process.exit)
+
+    console.log('Success!')
+
+  } catch (err) {
+    console.log(err)
+  }
+}
+
+main()