swarmlog

create a p2p webrtc swarm around a hyperlog

example

first generate some ed25519 keys:

$ node -pe "JSON.stringify(require('ssb-keys').generate())" > keys.json

now create a hyperlog publisher that will write a new message every second:

publish.js:

var swarmlog = require('swarmlog')
var memdb = require('memdb')

var log = swarmlog({
  keys: require('./keys.json'),
  sodium: require('chloride/browser'),
  db: memdb(),
  valueEncoding: 'json',
  hubs: [ 'https://signalhub.mafintosh.com' ]
})

var times = 0
setInterval(function () {
  log.append({ time: Date.now(), msg: 'HELLO!x' + times })
  times++
}, 1000)

and a follower that will consume the log:

var swarmlog = require('swarmlog')
var memdb = require('memdb')

var log = swarmlog({
  publicKey: require('./keys.json').public,
  sodium: require('chloride/browser'),
  db: memdb(),
  valueEncoding: 'json',
  hubs: [ 'https://signalhub.mafintosh.com' ]
})

log.createReadStream({ live: true })
  .on('data', function (data) {
    console.log('RECEIVED', data)
  })

api

var swarmlog = require('swarmlog')

var log = swarmlog(opts)

Create a hyperlog instance log from:

• opts.sodium - a sodium instance: require('sodium') in node or require('chloride/browser') in the browser
• opts.db - a leveldb instance (use level-browserify in the browser)
• opts.valueEncoding - valueEncoding to use for the hyperlog
• opts.hubs - array of signalhub hubs to use
• opts.publicKey - (or opts.public) - ed25519 public key
• opts.secretKey - (or opts.private) - ed25519 private key
• opts.keys - object, another place to put publicKey/public and secretKey/privateKey/private
• opts.peerStream(peer) - optional function that should return the stream to use for a peer swarm connection. Use this if you want to multiplex some other protocols on the same swarm alongside the hyperlog replication.

Public and private keys are either a hex string, a binary Buffer, or a base64-encoded string ending with '.ed25519' (ssb-keys style).

If opts is a string it will be interpreted as the opts.publicKey for easier following.

Optionally provide a wrtc instance as opts.wrtc to create a swarmlog in node.

log.swarm

the underlying webrtc-swarm instance

log.hub

the underlying signalhub instance

p2p

Currently the swarm relies on signalhub to assist in the webrtc swarm setup, but ideally in the future this could be replaced or augmented with a webrtc DHT.

install

npm install swarmlog

license

BSD