Blockchain By Example

Serving your frontend using IFPS

Let's start by deploying our frontend to IPFS. First, we need to decide which files are required by the frontend, and add them to a directory that we can add to IPFS. With reference to Chapter 8, Creating an ICO, the following files will be required:

• The frontend code that we created in the src/ directory
• The contract abstractions, in the form of JSON files, in the build/contract/ directory

From the root of our ICO project, add the contents of these directories to a new directory that we'll use for the deployment to IPFS:

$ mkdir dist$ rsync -r src/ dist/$ rsync -r build/contract/ dist/

Then, add the new directory to IPFS by using the add command that we met earlier, passing it the recursive -r flag, ...