orbit-connect-server

Orbit-connect is a set of 2 packages (server + client) to make it easy to get up and running with orbit-db, and hide the process of keeping various stores in sync so that you don't have to worry about it.

Warning: this is in-progress and not production ready.

The server package is intended to be run on a server. The server, in this architecture, has the role of providing both redundancy and availability. That is, it basically duplicates data from clients and makes it available for others to query. (Without the servers, peers would have to connect directly to each other. If a peer is offline, then it's database cannot be queried without servers.) The data redundancy is also useful, as client storage is not necessarily expected to be persisted over a long period of time (users change browsers/devices, clear their local storage, etc).

The client package, then exists for clients to be able to both publish their own data and discover other peers' data. Clients are not expected to communicate directly with one another in this model; rather, they use the servers as a relay.

This is the server package.

Example:

const orbitConnectServer = require('@projectaspen/orbit-connect-server')

const ORBITDB_PATH = './orbitdb'
const PINNING_ROOM = 'hello-world'

orbitConnectServer({ orbitdbPath: ORBITDB_PATH, room: PINNING_ROOM })

/*
  Swarm listening on /ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/4003/ws/ipfs/QmTWv5fGvUSFS8K86zxgGRYCEDLJLqGAXa5yjcZKG6weC5
  Swarm listening on /ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/4002/ipfs/QmTWv5fGvUSFS8K86zxgGRYCEDLJLqGAXa5yjcZKG6weC5
  Swarm listening on /ip4/192.168.1.67/tcp/4002/ipfs/QmTWv5fGvUSFS8K86zxgGRYCEDLJLqGAXa5yjcZKG6weC5
*/