Taking the Power Back with Web Meshes

• trystero

  4 670 0.0 JavaScript

  🤝 Serverless WebRTC matchmaking for painless P2P — Make any site multiplayer in a few lines — Use BitTorrent, IPFS, or Firebase

  First, I need to give credit to Dan Motzenbecker and his incredible work with the Trystero JavaScript library. Trystero serves as the direct inspiration for the web mesh concept. Trystero is one of the most powerful and fascinating libraries I've ever found and I don't understand how it doesn't have many thousands of stars on GitHub. Please give Trystero a look and consider how you might use it in your own projects.

• webtorrent

  19 28,493 7.0 JavaScript

  ⚡️ Streaming torrent client for the web

  

  A web mesh starts by a browser connecting to one or more WebTorrent servers and offering its SDP data. This SDP data contains information about how to connect to the offering browser via WebRTC. It also requests SDP data for any other browser that has already connected to the WebTorrent server similarly. These SDP data offers and requests are scoped to a specific, client-determined namespace (or "room") so that users only connect with others that have the same namespace/room name. Once SDP data is exchanged, browsers can then connect directly to each other. Each browser maintains a connection to the WebTorrent trackers to automatically connect to other browsers that try to connect to the room similarly later, but that is the only type of dynamic client/server interaction.

• Appwrite

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• FirebaseRTC

  6 442 0.0 JavaScript

  Codelab for building a WebRTC Video chat application using Firebase Cloudstore.

  

  P2P is nothing new. It is a long-established means of connecting two or more people directly over a network. Web browsers are very capable of a wide range of P2P connections. Many apps use WebRTC to enhance realtime apps, but it is still an underutilized technology. Even with WebRTC, many apps are designed around the dependence on a central app server with WebRTC performing a user experience enhancement. Web meshes turn this idea on its head: Instead of using P2P connections to enhance the user experience, what if P2P connections were the foundation of the user experience? In other words, what if there was no central server?

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