/webtorrent-node-demo

Primary LanguageJavaScript

Attempting to get webtorrent working with electron forge

This repo is a minimal demo of integrating webtorrent and electronforge. Webtorrent is integrated in a worker thread on the nodejs side, rather than in the browser side.

Commands

  • npm run start to get it going in a dev environment
  • npm run make to build the installer

Issues

Currently, the built (npm run make) version fails to download a torrent. This is because webpack is not bundling in dependencies into the worker chunk, and that JS file can't find the webtorrent package.

Troubleshooting help

  • Logs are written to %AppData%\Roaming\webtorrent-test\logs\main.log. This is helpful to debug errors and logs in the make exe.
  • Downloads are saved in your system's Downloads folder (eg: C:\Users\Flam\Downloads\)
  • This tries to download a folder for a video called Cosmos Laundromat in your downloads folder. It works with npm run start but not with npm run main.

Fix

My fix / workaround can be seen here #2