Webtorrent github full#
We also build a `webtorrent` JavaScript package (see ) which implements the full BitTorrent/WebTorrent protocol in JavaScript. We built a popular desktop torrent client, WebTorrent Desktop ( ), which supports powerful features like instant video streaming. Nonetheless, WebTorrent served as an accessible on-ramp to the world of decentralized tech, along with other projects like Dat ( ) and Secure Scuttlebutt ( ).īut WebTorrent is more than a protocol extension to BitTorrent. WebTorrent never got as much attention as the cryptocurrency projects selling tokens throughout the mid-2010s, even though WebTorrent actually worked and had more real users than almost all of them :) I was never tempted to add a crypto-token to WebTorrent, despite many well-meaning friends telling me to do it. And it worked _well_, beating many native torrent apps in terms of raw download speed and the ability to stream videos within seconds of adding a torrent. Within less than a year of starting the project, I got WebTorrent fully working. I started WebTorrent with the goal of extending the BitTorrent protocol to become more web-friendly, allowing any browser to become a peer in the torrent network. I started the project in 2013 and devoted most of my 20s to working on it, ultimately becoming a full-time open source maintainer, and writing hundreds of npm packages including buffer ( ), simple-peer ( ), and StandardJS ( ).
It's so fulfilling to see WebTorrent still popping up on Hacker News after all these years. Disclosure: I'm the author of WebTorrent.
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