Solid Tools and Libraries

The basic building blocks for developing Solid apps include tools - software that supports development without programming - and libraries - collections of methods which can be used to build apps. Everyone is invited to contribute new tools and libraries.

Solid-specific Tools

• Molid - a mock server that can be used for testing apps
• Shighl - a tool that lets your write simply HTML/JavaScript to interact with a Solid Pod Session, Profile, Inbox, Chat… Session, Profile, Inbox, Chat…
• Solid Data Kitchen - The solid databrowser technology as a stand-alone electron app
• Solid Filemanager - A file manager for Solid pods
• Solid IDE - GUI front-end for Solid document management and syntax-highlighting pod editor
• Solid Local Pod Manager - serve parts of your local filesystem as a local pod
• Solid Shell - command line, interactive shell, and batch processor for Solid document management
• Visualization Lab - an experimental visualisation workbench built using Svelte

Solid-specific JavaScript Libraries

A typical Solid app will perform one or more of these functions using one of the associated libraries:

• login & manage sessions (Authentication Libraries)
• parse & query linked data (Linked Data Libraries)
• manage documents and information flow (Resource Management Libraries)
• provide a user interface (Interface Libraries)

Beginning developers may want to start with one of the interface libraries which provide pre-built components. Advanced developers might want to look at Low Level Libraries.

• Authentication & Access Control Libraries
  • ACL Check - check Web Access Control ACLs
  • Solid Auth Client - login and session management for browsers
  • Solid Auth CLI - login and session management for node/console
  • Solid Authorization Widget - authorization component for web apps
  • Inrupt Solid JavaScript Authentication - login and session management for browsers by Inrupt
• Linked Data Libraries
  • LDflex for Solid A library for making RDF querying easy
  • GraphQL-LD for Solid
  • rdflib - A library for advanced manipulation of RDF
  • rdf-ext - An implementation of RDFJS specifications
  • Soukai-solid - A Soukai ODM extension adapting Solid to the engine
  • Tripledoc - A library for easy manipulation of RDF

  See also this cheat sheet for a handy comparison between three commonly used linked data libraries.

• Resource Management Libraries
  • Node Solid WS - support for WebSockets
  • Solid File Client create, read, copy, upload & mange files & folders
  • Solid File Widget a file component for web apps
  • Solid Rest - Solid access to non-Solid spaces such as browser IndexedDB and Dropbox
  • Inrupt Solid JavaScript Client - Data and access management manipulation by Inrupt
• Interface & Components Libraries
  • Solid Angular SDK
  • Inrupt Solid React SDK
  • Solid React Components for GraphQL-LD
  • Solid UI
  • Mashlib
  • Solid panes

• Low-Level Libraries

  • Comunica - A highly modular and flexible meta query engine for the Web
  • graphy.js - a collection of high-performance RDF libraries for JavaScript developers with a focus on usability
  • Keychain: for use with Web Cryptography API in Node.js
  • Node-WebID: A node module to verify and create WebIDs
  • OIDC decentralized auth manager
  • OIDC provider
  • OIDC relying party
  • OIDC resource server auth
  • Solid CLI - token management for node/console

Related Tools

• EasyRDF converter: Convert RDF from a syntax to another
• Prefix.cc: Dereference prefixes into their full domain name
• Protégé: An ontology editor

Related libraries

• Python

  • rdflib

• Java

  • Apache Jena
  • Eclipse RDF4J

• PHP

  • EasyRDF

How to contribute

If you have a new tool or library, or have suggested additions or changes for this page, please submit a PR or contact the solidproject.org team.