Tools and libraries overview

There are a number of robust developer libraries to save you from re-inventing the wheel. Everyone is invited to contribute new libraries and provide feedback on existing libraries - see how to contribute.

Solid-specific Tools

• Molid - a mock server that can be used for testing apps
• Penny - a file manager for Solid pods
• Shighl - a tool that lets your write simply HTML/JavaScript to interact with a Solid Pod Session, Profile, Inbox, Chat… Session, Profile, Inbox, Chat…
• SolidOS Databrowser - The operating system for Solid
• 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 Shell - command line, interactive shell, and batch processor for Solid document management
• PodOS Browser - Browse and manage things in a Solid pod

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 and/or participate in the Solid OS project.

• Authentication & Access Control Libraries
  • ACL Check - check Web Access Control ACLs
  • Inrupt Solid JavaScript Authentication - login and session management
  • Solid Auth Fetcher -login and session management
  • Solid Node Client - nodejs login/sesseion for Pods & Solid access to local file systems, and other backends
• Linked Data Libraries
  • LDflex for Solid — A library for making RDF querying easy
  • LDO — Solid and RDF without the Complexity
  • GraphQL-LD for Solid — A way to query Linked Data using GraphQL
  • rdflib — A library for advanced manipulation of RDF
  • 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
  • Solid File Client create, read, copy, upload & mange files & folders
  • Solid Namespace A collection of common RDF namespaces used in the Solid project
  • Solid Rest - Solid access to non-Solid spaces such as file systems, browser IndexedDB, and Dropbox
  • Inrupt Solid JavaScript Client - Data and access management manipulation by Inrupt
• SDK & Components Libraries
  • Solid React Components for GraphQL-LD
  • PodOS elements - HTML custom elements (aka web components) for read from and write to Solid pods.
• Solid OS - Solid as an operating system & databrowser interface
  • SolidOS overview - SolidOS as a code stack for Solid which includes:
    • Solid UI - User Interface widgets and utilities for Solid
    • Mashlib - Solid-compatible data mashup library and Databrowser
    • Solid Panes - A set of core solid-compatible apps based on solid-ui
    • Solid Logic - Core business logic of SolidOS
  • Data Kitchen - SolidOS as a standalone desktop app (experimental)

• 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
  • OIDC decentralized auth manager
  • OIDC provider
  • OIDC relying party
  • OIDC resource server auth
  • rdf-ext - An implementation of RDFJS specifications

Solid-specific Libraries in other languages

Perl

• Web::Solid::Auth - a Perl Solid-OIDC client with a command line tool and example app

Python

• solid-flask - simple “Hello World” Flask app that can read private data from a Solid pod
• solid-file-python - a Python library for creating and managing files and folders in Solid pods
• solid-oidc-py - client authentication via Solid-OIDC
• solid-client-credentials-py - client authentication via client credentials

Rust

• solid-warp - simple example of authenticated reads/writes to a Solid pod

Kotlin

• spring-solid-demo - simple example of Solid-OIDC using Spring and Kotlin

Swift

• SolidAuthSwift - Authentication package for a Solid Pod

PHP

• Solid Client PHP - a PHP library for creating files and folders in Solid pods and implementing Solid OIDC, also contains a bundle for the Symfony and API Platform frameworks.

Related Tools

• EasyRDF converter: Convert RDF from a syntax to another
• Linked Data Extension for Visual Studio
• 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.