Solid Helper

This repo contains common helpers for developing SoLiD (Social Linked Data) Apps with JS/TS.

It emerged from my personal requirements, because I routinely or predictively need some functionalities.

Docs

Under construction...

For the time being, please see index.ts for exported functions and types. They are mainly:

• getUserInfo(): Get some common information of the WebID (avatar, name, etc).
• findStorage(): Get the Pod / storage (recursively up) from the specified URL. Mainly used when WebID does not have space:storage specified.
• isStorageInLinkHeader(): Identify if the given URL is a storage based on the Link header, of the given URL.
• isStorageInLinkHeaderString(): Identify if the given URL is a storage based on the Link header.

Test

This repo comes with simple / naive unit tests and end-to-end (E2E) tests, under test/.

Remember to run npm run build first before testing.

Unit test

To run the unit test:

npm test

E2E test

To run the E2E test:

POD_URL='https://YOUR-POD-URL/' npm run test-e2e

See document inside the file (test/e2e/test.js) for more details.