“How IPFS Works” interactive explainer

[jessicaschilling]

Objective

Create an interactive explainer on how IPFS works within the context of a real-world use case (e.g. friends/family sharing vacation photos in an offline-friendly app on the plane trip home). Explainer must include the option to turn on/off “dev mode”, enabling the user to either go through the journey from a conceptual level or augment the concepts with more in-depth technical examples (ideally as functional as possible within the context of a website demo). Areas explored must include:

• How files are hashed and turned into blocks, including de-duplication
• How files are queried and shared between users (content addressing, DAG lookup)
• How these p2p concepts are incorporated into an offline-first, privacy-preserving app context (featuring a reusable IPFS stack diagram)
• Any potential intersection points with Filecoin, if appropriate
• Relevant outbound docs/etc links throughout for those who wish to dig deeper

PRD

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xujTTf0Y6viPp7P-JTzLGaAdJ6wwCxClXUjji9hq4xU/edit

[jessicaschilling]

Update: Per dev onboarding meeting 6 April, will re-frame this using the to-be-canonical example of NFT storage, and create a proposal for implementation in Q2.