Add basic example using ES7 async/await

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:/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()