Actually serverless

Connecting peers using torrent technologies.

Install

Easily create serverless web rtc connections based on a connection string.

npm install --save actually-serverless

or yarn

yarn add actually-serverless

usage

Here is a very basic usage.

import actuallyServerless from "./actually-serverless"
let peers = []
const stopLookingForPeers = actuallyServerless({
    connectionString: "Any string you want to use to discover peers.",
    // each peer is an extended version of https://github.com/feross/simple-peer
    // with onMessage and sendMessage added.
    onPeer: peer => {
        peers.push(peer)
        peer.on('close', () => {
            peers = peers.filter(p => p !== peer)
        })
        peer.onMessage((meesage) => {
            console.log('message from a peer: ', message)
        }))
        peer.sendMessage("welcome to my peer group, I know about " + peers.length + " peers")
    }
})

// to teardown
stopLookingForPeers()
peers.forEach(peer => peer.destroy())

Try out the serverless chat room! See the source for more advanced usage.

See the readme for create react app, if you want to play with the demo src.

usage with webpack

Webtorrent is kind of a PITA with webpack. See: https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent/issues/347

You will probably run into issues with minifying, what you end up needing to do is split webpack into it's own bundle and ignore that bundle for minificaiton.