A DHT for my time at recurse center
npm install rc-kademlia  
This is a DHT for use on a local network. It takes bootstrap peer information or will broadcast on port 1338 asking for local peers. The local peer discovery uses udp Datagrams which can be relied upon to arrive as a whole message. A small binary packet is used to communicate info
bash
npm install rc-kademlia
`Development
To build and run 10 nodes type
docker-compose up --build --scale node=10
Example
Overview
API
$3
ts
function tk(size: number, iterable: AsyncIterable): AsyncIterableIterator
function tk(size: number, iterable: Iterable): IterableIterator
`TK means "to come" in editing parlance. This isn't a real function - the api is TK
can be betweeen 1 and Infinity.`ts
import { batch } from 'rc-kademlia'
import { getPokemon } from 'iterable-pokedex'// batch 10 pokemon while we process them
for await (const pokemons of batch(10, getPokemon())) {
console.log(pokemons) // 10 pokemon at a time!
}
`Contributors wanted!
Writing docs and code is a lot of work! Thank you in advance for helping out.
TODO
Tomorrow I want to get
- [x] limit local peer discovery to one node
- [x] request and response flow
- [x] the recursive find_node search
- [x] actual good find_node results
- A better way of visualizing what's going on
- [x] dht bootstrapping process (does this need a real address book with actual k-buckets? Maybe)Thing I probably won't do tomorrow
- peer state and removal
- responses should count as a pong
-
store and find_value`Things I'll probably have to do but don't want to
- test with many more peers
- visualize what's going on with many more peers