How To

How-tos are goal-oriented recipes. Each one assumes you already know roughly what you're doing and just need the steps for a particular task — replicating a Hypercore, deploying an app, or troubleshooting common issues.

If you want to look up a CLI flag, an API, or a config field, that's Reference. For the conceptual "why," see Explanations.

In this section

Connecting peers

• Connect two peers by key with HyperDHT
• Connect to many peers by topic with Hyperswarm

Storage and replication

• Replicate and persist with Hypercore
• Work with many Hypercores using Corestore
• Share append-only databases with Hyperbee
• Create a full peer-to-peer filesystem with Hyperdrive

Operating an app

• Deploy your application
• Distribute as a binary
• Manage installed applications
• Migrate to a new release
• Apply recommended practices
• Troubleshoot common issues