path-explorer

What is path-explorer and what is it for?

path-explorer is a reusable module for Holochain that reads and browses the named paths recorded in an app's distributed data store. It exists so that developers building or studying a Holochain network can see the path and link structure that network has built up, instead of querying each path one at a time.

path-explorer is a reusable module for Holochain rather than a finished, openable app. It gathers code that reads and browses the named paths recorded in an app's distributed data store, so that a developer can inspect the structure a network has accumulated instead of querying one path at a time. The repository describes it in its own words as a Holochain module for exploring all paths available in a distributed hash table.

Paths are how a Holochain app keeps its shared data findable. A path is a label a network agrees on — a category, a thread, a list — and entries are filed under it so others can find and follow them. That quiet bookkeeping is hard to see from the outside, and path-explorer is the instrument for looking at it: a small, reusable piece of tooling a developer adds to a project when they need to know what paths exist, how they are nested, and what sits under each one.

The clearest example is the one the repository ships itself: a basic task-management demo app called Tasker: Playground, built expressly for trying out the module's features and also carrying profile and agent-directory modules. The project is historical rather than active — the repository is archived, and its README says the code moved on to other Lightningrod Labs repositories. A published npm package carries its browsing elements. The repository README is the place to read further.

From 2 public sources, checked 23 September 2026.