Getting Started
Welcome to the Permaweb Cookbook! This book contains concepts, guides, and snippets to help you get started building decentralized applications on Arweave.
What is the Permaweb?
The Permaweb is a global, community-owned web that anyone can contribute to or get paid to maintain. It's built on top of Arweave, a decentralized storage network that permanently stores data.
Creating and deploying applications on Arweave is similar to creating traditional applications - with the key difference that applications uploaded to Arweave are immutable, decentralized, and cannot be individually removed. These properties can make building on Arweave challenging, but rewarding.
This cookbook aims to make the process of learning and building simpler.
Getting Started
The Quick Start guides in the next chapter aim to give a brief overview of what it looks like to deploy a "Hello World" application to Arweave, using both CLI tools and code.
Next Steps
Once you've completed the getting started guide, explore:
- Fundamentals to understand how Arweave works
- Guides for step-by-step tutorials
- Tooling for development tools
Contributing
If you're interested in contributing to the cookbook, you can read the guidelines in the the GitHub repository here.