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libp2p-webrtc-star
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libp2p WebRTC transport that includes a discovery mechanism provided by the signalling-star
libp2p WebRTC transport that includes a discovery mechanism provided by the signalling-star
libp2p-webrtc-star
is one of the WebRTC transports available for libp2p. `libp2p-webrtc-star incorporates both a transport and a discovery service that is facilitated by the signalling server, also part of this module.
Note: This module uses pull-streams for all stream based interfaces.
TODO
> npm install libp2p-webrtc-star
libp2p-webrtc-star
comes with its own signalling server, used for peers to handshake their signalling data and establish a connection. You can install it in your machine by installing the module globally:
> npm install --global libp2p-webrtc-star
This will expose a star-sig
cli tool. To spawn a server do:
> star-signal --port=9090 --host=127.0.0.1
Defaults:
port
- 13579host
- '0.0.0.0'We host a signalling server at star-signal.cloud.ipfs.team
that can be used for practical demos and experimentation, it should not be used for apps in production.
A libp2p-webrtc-star address, using the signalling server we provide, looks like:
/libp2p-webrtc-star/dns4/star-signal.cloud.ipfs.team/wss/ipfs/<your-peer-id>
Note: The address above indicates WebSockets Secure, which can be accessed from both http and https.
pull-streams
We expose a streaming interface based on pull-streams
, rather then on the Node.js core streams implementation (aka Node.js streams). pull-streams
offers us a better mechanism for error handling and flow control guarantees. If you would like to know more about why we did this, see the discussion at this issue.
You can learn more about pull-streams at:
pull-streams
to Node.js StreamsIf you are a Node.js streams user, you can convert a pull-stream to a Node.js stream using the module pull-stream-to-stream
, giving you an instance of a Node.js stream that is linked to the pull-stream. For example:
const pullToStream = require('pull-stream-to-stream')
const nodeStreamInstance = pullToStream(pullStreamInstance)
// nodeStreamInstance is an instance of a Node.js Stream
To learn more about this utility, visit https://pull-stream.github.io/#pull-stream-to-stream.
FAQs
libp2p WebRTC transport that includes a discovery mechanism provided by the signalling-star
The npm package libp2p-webrtc-star receives a total of 1,524 weekly downloads. As such, libp2p-webrtc-star popularity was classified as popular.
We found that libp2p-webrtc-star demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 5 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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