Feature: Celestia-backed NPM Registry
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Stale
- Tech stack
- go, sqlite
Research direction
Start by tracing Apex's blob client and transaction-submission path, then map the SQLite metadata/index and npm-compatible registry API requirements. Done means the four listed implementation steps are covered: blob submission, tarball storage, metadata storage, and registry-compatible endpoints.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Description
Summary
Expose an npm-compatible registry API backed by Celestia blobs through Apex.
Example usage:
npm publish --registry=https://apex.dev/npm
npm install package-name
Motivation
The npm ecosystem currently depends on centralized infrastructure.
Using Celestia DA would provide:
- Permanent package availability
- Censorship resistance
- Decentralized package distribution
- Verifiable package storage
Architecture
npm client
↓
npm registry API
↓
SQLite metadata/index
↓
Apex blob client
↓
Celestia blobs
Package tarballs would be chunked and stored as blobs.
Implementation Steps
- Implement blob transaction submission in Apex
- Store package tarballs as blobs
- Store package metadata in SQLite
- Expose npm registry compatible endpoints
- Dominant language
- Go
- Stars
- 4
- Forks
- 0
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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