files.get availability

[thisbejim]

Hi there, are you able use files.get to download files from the network when running a js-ipfs node? I can only see files.cat being used in the browser example which, as I understand it, grabs files stored locally.

At the moment when I use files.get on a hash for a file that was not saved locally js-ipfs will hang forever and the promise will never be fulfilled. Do you need to run a daemon to use files.get and download files? If so, how do you connect js-ipfs to the daemon? Cheers.

Edit: Perhaps it might be good for newcomers like myself if it is clarified somewhere what the difference is between js-ipfs and js-ipfs-api, what each of them do, and how they relate to each other.