webrtc-swarm

Create a swarm of p2p connections using webrtc and a signalhub.

npm install webrtc-swarm

Usage

var swarm = require('webrtc-swarm')
var signalhub = require('signalhub')

var hub = signalhub('swarm-example', ['http://yourdomain.com'])

var sw = swarm(hub, {
  wrtc: require('wrtc') // don't need this if used in the browser
})

sw.on('peer', function (peer, id) {
  console.log('connected to a new peer:', id)
  console.log('total peers:', sw.peers.length)
})

sw.on('disconnect', function (peer, id) {
  console.log('disconnected from a peer:', id)
  console.log('total peers:', sw.peers.length)
})

API

var swarm = require('webrtc-swarm')

var sw = swarm(hub, opts)

Creates a new webrtc swarm using signalhub hub for discovery and connection brokering.

Valid keys for opts include:

• wrtc - (optional) a reference to the wrtc library, if using Node.
• uuid - (optional) a unique identifier for this peer. One is generated for you if not supplied.
• maxPeers - (optional) the maximum number of peers you wish to connect to. Defaults to unlimited.

Additional optional keys can be passed through to the underlying simple-peer instances:

• channelConfig - custom webrtc data channel configuration (used by createDataChannel)
• config - custom webrtc configuration (used by RTCPeerConnection constructor)
• stream - if video/voice is desired, pass stream returned from getUserMedia

sw.close()

Disconnect from swarm

sw.on('peer|connect', peer, id)

peer and connect are interchangeable. Fires when a connection has been established to a new peer peer, with unique id id.

sw.on('disconnect', peer, id)

Fires when an existing peer connection is lost.

peer is a simple-peer instance.

sw.on('close')

Fires when all peer and signalhub connections are closed

sw.peers

A list of peers that sw is currently connected to.

swarm.WEBRTC_SUPPORT

Detect native WebRTC support in the javascript environment.

var swarm = require('webrtc-swarm')

if (swarm.WEBRTC_SUPPORT) {
  // webrtc support!
} else {
  // fallback
}

License

MIT