/airswarm

Network swarm that automagically discovers other peers on the network using multicast dns

Primary LanguageJavaScriptMIT LicenseMIT

airswarm

Network swarm that automagically discovers other peers on the network using multicast dns

npm install airswarm

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Usage

var airswarm = require('airswarm')

airswarm('testing', function (sock) {
  sock.write('hello world (' + process.pid + ')\n')
  sock.pipe(process.stdout)
})

If you run the above program in a couple of processes on the same local network the swarms should start connecting to each other and write hello world

API

swarm = airswarm(name, [options], [onpeer])

Create a new swarm. The swarm will emit peer everytime a new peer is connected. Optionally you can pass a peer listener as the second argument.

The peer will be a tcp stream to another swarm.

Options include

{
  limit: maxPeersToConnectTo // defaults to Infinity
}

swarm.peers

An array containing all the currently connected peers

License

MIT