As summer continues to heat up, so too does Textile! — It’s been a lively summer for the Textile team as we continue to ramp up our developer offerings, test and explore new features in Textile Photos, and engage with our growing community of developers and IPFS/Textile enthusiasts. This month, I’ve decided to take a slightly different approach to our community…

Here’s the quickest way to build an offline-first chat app for Nodejs — To quote offlinefirst.org, we live in a disconnected & battery powered world, but our technology and best practices are a leftover from the always connected & steadily powered past. At Textile, we think a new approach to app development that embraces modern, decentralized web technologies while at the same time…

Supercharge your desktop and browser apps with Textile — We’re proud to introduce the Textile Javascript Client, a brand new open source client library that lets developers harness the power of Textile in desktop and browser-based web-apps. We mentioned @textile/js-http-client briefly in a recent post about Textile on desktop, but since then, the library has received some major updates…

The fastest way to build your next decentralized app using IPFS — Build a decentralized chat app in 3 commands? Check! Build a secure distributed database for location data in 5 lines of code? Check! It’s easier than ever to start building decentralized apps thanks to Textile’s ecosystem of decentralized developer tools. And we now have the docs to prove it. …

March developer madness… making things easier for devs — The Textile team was pretty much ‘heads down’ this past month (hence the March update in April), with a major focus on improving the external developer experience. This means a lot of work on stability, library modularization, simplification of developer APIs, and just general house-keeping (moar docs!). …

Textile is expanding quickly. Our next target? Your desktop and browser. — This week the Textile team is proud to kickoff our new ‘Textile Desktop Series’. As some of you way be aware, we’ve recently started to expand some of our developer tools and products to make it easier for folks to build awesome tools and apps on top of Textile protocols…

Better late than never… here’s your February update, in March — It has been an exciting month for Textile and our growing community of developers and early adopters. Riding on the high of last month’s Wired article mention, we have added tons of under-the-hood improvements to our underlying libraries, traveled exotic Denver for an Ethereum hackathon, and even released a few…

We’re starting the year off with a release, some new invites, and plenty of new ideas — The Textile team jumped into the New Year with some pretty lofty goals, including a strong focus on pushing out more regular releases again. We’ve also spent the better part of the last month focused on planning, mid-term roadmaps, a more stable underlying platform, and plenty of UX experiments to…

A simple Python tool to import your Facebook data dump into Textile Photos — A few months ago, we wrote a simple tool to automatically export your Facebook photo export back into nice, easy to use folders for easier management of your data. …