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Since camtool search '{"camliNodeType":"pinboard.in:post"}' returns only the null blob, to my surprise, and there are very few examples in main camlistore documentation explaining how searching works.

Features for a node module:

camput some-damn-thing.gif yields a sha1 hash value.

camget -contents sha1-somethingorother yields the contents of a file.

Camlistore's primary user interface, the Web UI, is a browser Javascript application using goog.require/provide modules (Closure Compiler). While most of the UI components have been ported (from goog.ui, I think?) to React, there are many (non-ui) dependencies on Closure Library

It includes some modules for communicating with a Camlistore server as well as for working with Camlistore blob/schema objects.

https://github.com/camlistore/camlistore/tree/master/server/camlistored/ui

One approach to
It should be possible to wrap a Common JS module from this and publish to NPM. This promises to have a lower initial effort than a from-scratch implementation. On the other hand, an implementation using NPM ecosystem/CommonJS internally would be easier to get contributions on, and more decomposable for Javascript developers comfortable with NPM. It would also be an interesting exercise.

Key questions:

• How much of the Camlistore server API does this client implementation cover?
• How many LoC in the client?
• How well is the generic client decoupled from other Web UI specific functionality?
• Are users of the client library API expected to