nextgraph-rs/ngd

ngd

Daemon of NextGraph

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NextGraph

NextGraph brings about the convergence of P2P and Semantic Web technologies, towards a decentralized, secure and privacy-preserving cloud, based on CRDTs.

This open source ecosystem provides solutions for end-users (a platform) and software developers (a framework), wishing to use or create decentralized apps featuring: live collaboration on rich-text documents, peer to peer communication with end-to-end encryption, offline-first, local-first, portable and interoperable data, total ownership of data and software, security and privacy. Centered on repositories containing semantic data (RDF), rich text, and structured data formats like JSON, synced between peers belonging to permissioned groups of users, it offers strong eventual consistency, thanks to the use of CRDTs. Documents can be linked together, signed, shared securely, queried using the SPARQL language and organized into sites and containers.

More info here https://nextgraph.org

Support

Documentation can be found here https://docs.nextgraph.org

And our community forum where you can ask questions is here https://forum.nextgraph.org

Status

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Building

See Build release binaries in the main README.

Usage

For a localhost server: The first start will create an invitation for the admin, so you can create your wallet

ngd --save-key -l 1440 --invite-admin --save-config

this will give you a link that you should open in your web browser. If there are many links, choose the one that starts with http://localhost:.

The computer you use to open the link should have direct access to the ngd server on localhost. In most of the cases, it will work, as you are running ngd on localhost. If you are running ngd in a docker container, then you need to give access to the container to the local network of the host by using docker run --network="host". see more here https://docs.docker.com/network/drivers/host/

Follow the steps on the screen to create your wallet :)

for the next start of ngd :

ngd

For a server behind a domain: create the first admin user

The current directory will be used to save all the config, keys and storage data. If you prefer to change the base directory, use the argument --base [PATH] when using ngd and/or ngcli.

ngcli gen-key
ngd -v --save-key -l 1440 -d <SERVER_DOMAIN> --admin <THE_USER_ID_YOU_JUST_CREATED>
// note the server peerID from the logs

in another terminal:

ngcli --save-key -s 127.0.0.1,1440,<PEER_ID_OF_SERVER> -u <THE_PRIVATE_KEY_OF_THE_USER_YOU_JUST_CREATED> admin add-user <THE_USER_ID_YOU_JUST_CREATED> -a

you should see a message User added successfully.

to check that the admin user has been created :

ngcli --save-key -s 127.0.0.1,1440,<PEER_ID_OF_SERVER> -u <THE_PRIVATE_KEY_OF_THE_USER_YOU_JUST_CREATED> admin list-users -a

should return your userId

you can now save the configs of both the server and client

ngd -l 1440 -d <SERVER_DOMAIN> --save-config
ngcli -s 127.0.0.1,1440,<PEER_ID_OF_SERVER> -u <THE_PRIVATE_KEY_OF_THE_USER_YOU_JUST_CREATED> --save-config

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0 (LICENSE-APACHE2 or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) at your option.

SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 OR MIT

Contributions license

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you shall be dual licensed as below, without any additional terms or conditions.

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NextGraph received funding through the NGI Assure Fund, a fund established by NLnet with financial support from the European Commission's Next Generation Internet programme, under the aegis of DG Communications Networks, Content and Technology under grant agreement No 957073.