OMGoodness it’s May! Here’s the Textile April update.

community • May 13, 2019

We’ve fallen a couple of weeks behind in our monthly update but wanted to fire this off to ensure we don’t lose the cadence completely. April was a very busy month of building and growing. Here’s a rundown of some cool things that happened.

Community growth!

Our developer Slack channel has become a busy, busy place. With a few hundred developers regularly commenting, sharing, and building projects on and around the Textile stack. We’ve got team coordination tools, health data & communication tools, productivity tools and more being built in the open on our channel. It’s awesome.

4,000 Number of messages sent by developers on Slack in April

There were a few open source contributors, thanks to all of you! We want to highlight one contributor each month though, and so we’re throwing out a special thank you to JustMaier for his thorough and helpful read through of out documentation + multiple pull-requests to make it better. Thanks!

Also, a big thanks for the team at Epona for organizing and including Textile in the SF IPFS Hack & Meetup, awesome!

Technology growth!

Bits are flying at Textile. April saw an incredible number of commits and releases of our core, go-textile library. When go-textile gets updates, so to do our mobile frameworks, react native library, and JavaScript library. Phew… it was a fast month.

We are particularly proud of landing the pre-release of the JS HTTP Client, which you’ll hear more about on our blog this week ;).

500 Number of downloads of our JS HTTP Client pre-release in April.

The IPFS team keeps adding more and more greatness to every go-ipfs release. We’ve been doing our best to stay up with the latest, so go-textile is now running 0.4.20!

Team growth!

We were pretty excited to add Thomas, Textile’s first engineering intern!

We are excited to welcome the first intern to the Textile team! @thomashobohm is a talented web developer passionate about many things including decentralization and IPFS. Can't wait to see what he does this summer!
— Textile (@textileio) May 7, 2019