ipfs-deploy VS ipfs-companion

I've got a basic personal site with blog posts and random stuff that I also make available through IPFS. The site is made with Gatsby, a static site generator that generates a folder full of html files and resources. I host those on a normal webserver, but I also publish the files onto IPFS (using ipfs-deploy and https://pinata.cloud/ as the pinning service) and then have a DNSLink DNS record on the domain (that gets updated by ipfs-deploy) so that people with IPFS-compatible browsers can access the site through IPFS. It's also nice that it means a mirror of my site is also accessible through https://MY-DOMAIN-COM.ipns.dweb.link. I like knowing that if anything happens to my regular webserver, then as long as the domain is still up then there good ways to access my site and for anyone to help preserve my site.

I recommend Pinata [0] for IPFS pinning if you do not want to host your own IPFS node. I'm not sure when they'll start charging but it's been free since they launched and I believe Infura [1] also has free pinning. Cloudflare [2] is a good alternative gateway to use. For deployment I use this deploy tool [3] which makes it as simple as `ipd -p pinata my-app`

[0] https://pinata.cloud/

[1] https://infura.io

[2] https://blog.cloudflare.com/distributed-web-gateway/

[3] https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-deploy

I appreciate you documenting this, if it's not too much hassle, can you please create an issue here: https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-companion/issues/new/choose also adding at what steps things didn't work for you and what would've made your experience better?

I am sorry that I couldn't be of more help. Perhaps cloning the github repo https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-companion, entering developer mode, and manually creating an extension will resolve your issue.

I'm also going to assume you've used ipfs before. If not, then take some time to discover IPFS with IPFS Desktop, IPFS Companion and go-ipfs!

Mozilla stopped working on libdweb in 2019 (https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-companion/pull/533#issuecomment...).

An IPFS node is a software that can communicate using the IPFS protocol. For example, Go IPFS, JS IPFS, IPFS Desktop (which may use Go IPFS in the background) and IPFS Companion (which may use JS IPFS in the background).