smokesignal | Build your own small peer to peer network

smokesignal is a JavaScript library typically used in Networking, Nodejs applications. smokesignal has no bugs, it has no vulnerabilities and it has low support. You can install using 'npm i smokesignal' or download it from GitHub, npm.

Scale your real-time app with p2p message passing. Smokesignal is not a gossip protocol. It does not implement p2p data replication for you. It is a plain, flexible peer-to-peer networking solution, onto which you can easily build your own replication model or use some event passing mechanism. To faciliate this, direct connections from peer to peer as well as a network-wide broadcast (Node.broadcast) are simple duplex streams. Thus you can add all favours of stream-goodness, like remote-events, p2p-rpc-stream, and what not. You can connect to new peers manually or allow your node to search for peers automatically. You can listen on peer list events to get notified when your node added or removed a peer. If you want, your node will automatically ping the network seed(s) once in a while, to detect netsplits and resolve them automatically. Nodes emit a connect event when the node adds the first peer, and a disconnect event, when the last peer disconnects. If you have specified some seeds, your node will automatically rejoin the network in this case. This project is in development, so be prepared that things might break in some situations.