Bootstrap server

Server for the webrtc-bootstrap library.

The server can be run locally for tests or deployed on any public server (server with a public IP address) that supports WebSockets.

Usage

# Using the configuration file
node bin/server path_to_config.json

# Or using environment variables
SECRET=12345 node bin/server

Secret configuration

Please clone this repository, copy config.example.json to config.json, and change the secret in the config.json file to ensure only your root node can connect as root to the bootstrap server.

API

Server(secret, opts)

secret is an alphanumeric string that is used by the client to connect as root.

opts is an optional object with the default values:

{
    public: null,
    timeout: 30 * 1000 // ms,
    httpServer: null,
    port: 5000,
    seed: null
}

opts.public is the path to the public directory for serving static content.

opts.timeout is the maximum allowed time for a candidate to successfully join the network.

opts.httpServer is an existing http server.

opts.port is the port used by the http server if none has been provided.

opts.seed is a number to use as a seed for the pseudo-random generation of channel ids. If null, the crypto.randomBytes method is used instead.