Documentation

• Class: P2PT extends EventEmitter
  • Event: peerconnect
  • Event: data
  • Event: msg
  • Event: peerclose
  • Event: trackerconnect
  • Event: trackerwarning
  • new P2PT(announceURLs = [], identifierString = '')
  • setIdentifier(identifierString)
  • start()
  • requestMorePeers()
  • send(peer, msg[, msgID = ''])
  • destroy()

Class: P2PT extends EventEmitter

The P2PT class is defined and exposed by the p2pt module :

import P2PT from 'p2pt'

In Typescript, you can use

import P2PT from "p2pt";

This is the base class that needs to be instantiated to use this library. It provides the API to implement P2P connections, communicate messages (even large content!) using WebTorrent WebSocket Trackers as the signalling server.

Event: peerconnect

This event is emitted when a new peer connects.

Arguments passed to Event Handler: peer Object

Event: data

This event is emitted for every chunk of data received.

Arguments passed to Event Handler: peer Object, data Object

Event: msg

This event is emitted once all the chunks are received for a message.

Arguments passed to Event Handler: peer Object, msg Object

Event: peerclose

This event is emitted when a peer disconnects.

Arguments passed to Event Handler: peer Object

Event: trackerconnect

This event is emitted when a successful connection to tracker is made.

Arguments passed to Event Handler: WebSocketTracker Object, stats Object

Event: trackerwarning

This event is emitted when some error happens with connection to tracker.

Arguments passed to Event Handler: Error object, stats Object

new P2PT(announceURLs = [], identifierString = '')

Instantiates the class

• Arguments:
  • announceURLs: Array
    • Description: List of announce tracker URLs
    • Default: []
  • identifierString: String
    • Description: Identifier used to discover peers in the network
    • Default: ''

// Find public WebTorrent tracker URLs here : https://github.com/ngosang/trackerslist/blob/master/trackers_all_ws.txt
const trackersAnnounceURLs = [
  "wss://tracker.openwebtorrent.com",
  "wss://tracker.sloppyta.co:443/",
  "wss://tracker.novage.com.ua:443/",
  "wss://tracker.btorrent.xyz:443/",
]

// This 'myApp' is called identifier and should be unique to your app
const p2pt = new P2PT(trackersAnnounceURLs, 'myApp')

In Typescript, the P2PT class accepts an optional type parameter to constrain the type of messages you can pass to the send function. It doesn't constrain the type of messages you recieve, since any peer could send anything.

type Msg = 'hello' | { goodbye: boolean }
const p2pt = new P2PT<Msg>(trackersAnnounceURLs, 'myApp')
// ... find a peer ...
p2pt.send(peer, 'some_message') // TS typecheck error: Argument of type 'string' is not assignable to parameter of type 'Msg'.
p2pt.send(peer, 'hello') // ok!
p2pt.send(peer, { goodbye: true }) // ok!

setIdentifier(identifierString)

Sets the identifier string used to discover peers in the network

• Arguments:
  • identifierString: String
    • Description: Identifier used to discover peers in the network
• Returns: void

start()

Connects to network and starts discovering peers

• Arguments: None
• Returns: void

requestMorePeers()

Request More Peers

• Arguments: None
• Returns: Promise
  • resolve(peers)
    • peers: Object

send(peer, msg[, msgID = ''])

• Arguments:
  • peer: Object
    • Description: Stores information of a Peer
  • msg: Object
    • Description: Message to send
  • msgID: Number
    • Description: ID of message if it's a response to a previous message. You won't need to pass this
    • Default: ''
• Returns: Promise
  • resolve([peer, msg])
    • peer: Object
    • msg: Object

destroy()

Destroy the P2PT Object

• Arguments: None
• Returns: void