Get your first site up and running with this beginner-friendly guide
Setup
With fission installed, we are ready to set it up on your local machine. If this is your first time using fission, you will be prompted for a username and an email to confirm your new account.
✅ Registration successful! Head over to your email to confirm your account.
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🎛️ Initializing user config file
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✅ Done! Welcome to Fission, YOURNAME ✨.
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A private key has been generated for your machine and saved in the ~/.config/fission/key/ directory. This key secures your communication with Fission services and works like using an SSH key to connect to GitHub.
Account Linking
If you already have an account created in a web browser, you can link it on your local machine. See the Fission CLI linking guide to link your account.
Create a simple webpage
Let's publish a simple webpage with Fission! We will write a simple webpage, register it as a Fission app, and publish it to the web.
Create a project directory and an index.html file.
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mkdir hello-universe
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cd hello-universe
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touch index.html
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Add some content to index.html:
index.html
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<html>
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<head>
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<title>Hello Universe!</title>
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</head>
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<body>
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<h1>Hello Universe!</h1>
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<p>This is a Fission powered page.</p>
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<p>Assisted by <ahref="https://fission.codes">Fission</a>.</p>
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</body>
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</html>
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Run fission app register command to initialize the webpage as a Fission app. You will be prompted for a build directory.
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$ fission app register
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👷 Build directory (.):
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Press enter to set hello-universe as your build directory, and fission will initialize your app.
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✅ App initialized as big-narrow-fuchsia-elf.fission.app
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⏯️ Next run fission app publish or fission app publish --watch to sync data
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💁 It may take DNS time to propagate this initial setup globally.
Fission will create a fission.yaml file with your app configuration.
fission.yaml
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ignore:[]
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url: big-narrow-fuchsia-elf.fission.app
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build: .
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The url is where your webpage will be on the web after it has been published, build tells the fission which directory to publish, and ignore is a list of files and directories to ignore. See the Fission YAML guide for more details.
Run fission app publish to publish the webpage.
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$ fission app publish
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🕚🛫 App publish local preflight
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✈️ Pushing to remote
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🚀 Now live on the network
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📝 DNS updated! Check out your site at:
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🔗 big-narrow-fuchsia-elf.fission.app
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Copy the URL from the last line and paste it into your web browser to view the webpage live on the web. Nice and simple!
It may take a few minutes for DNS to propagate. If you don't see the webpage live at the URL, come back and try again in a bit. You can also take the URL from the CLI output and view the webpage athttps://ipfs.runfission.com/ipfs/{URL}right away.