# IPFS in JavaScript
Developers can get started with IPFS in JavaScript using Helia, a lean, modular, and modern implementation of IPFS for the JS and browser environments. Helia superseded js-ipfs (opens new window), which was the first JS implementation. Learn more at https://github.com/ipfs/helia (opens new window).
# Hands-on examples
New to IPFS or JavaScript? Get started with the Helia 101 example (opens new window), which will walk you through spawning a Helia node, adding a file, and cat
-ing the file CID both locally and through an IPFS gateway.
Additional Helia examples can be found here (opens new window).