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Quick Start

Get a Solid server running in under 5 minutes.

Start the server​

# Initialize configuration (interactive)
jss init

# Start server
jss start

Server is now running at http://localhost:3000.

Create a pod​

curl -X POST http://localhost:3000/.pods \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"name": "alice"}'

Response:

{
  "name": "alice",
  "webId": "http://localhost:3000/alice/#me",
  "podUri": "http://localhost:3000/alice/",
  "token": "eyJ..."
}

Save the token - you'll need it to write to your pod.

Write data​

curl -X PUT http://localhost:3000/alice/public/hello.json \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/ld+json" \
  -d '{"@id": "#greeting", "http://schema.org/text": "Hello, Solid!"}'

Read data​

curl http://localhost:3000/alice/public/hello.json

Next Steps​