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Got a quick IPFS question!

What's the easiest way to push a JSON object to IPFS? Bonus points if:
- I don't have to upload to a personal storage folder(eg. how lots of IPFS content for NFT collections are stored)
- I can create a DAG of files to store the update stream for a particular file

bringing mini apps to 1B users @base              dylansteck.com

Trying to see if I can use it as a lightweight public DB for something

Also some of my technical IPFS terms are a bit off because I haven't been using/researching it in a while, but I'm pretty sure there's a concept of object streams linked by CIDs

Explorer. Code, design, and mountains. Building Fern https://fernhq.com Previously Shopify

Programmatically as opposed to using a product interface

The trick here:
- saving the CIDs(you're not using a DB so you need somewhere to list what CIDs you've created/some way to query and identify these CIDs)
- programmatically creating a DAG using the CIDs(eg. could use this to show a file's edit history)

Programmatically or something that you can do manually?

Might have something for ya 👀

https://docs.pinata.cloud/reference/post_pinning-pinjsontoipfs

You can pin raw JSON and include metadata with Key Value stores, then query by file name cid or the KVs 

https://docs.pinata.cloud/reference/get_data-pinlist

Updating a file might require IPNS