Libp2p-gossip-discovery NPM

Synopsis

This implements peer discovery using gossip. A peer first connects to peers known to it vai its peer book and asks for more peers. This processes continues untill targetNumberOfPeers is reached.

Install

npm install libp2p-gossip-discovery

Usage

const GossipDiscovery = require('gossip-discovery')
const libp2p = require('libp2p')
const TCP = require('libp2p-tcp')
const multiplex = require('libp2p-multiplex')


class Node extends libp2p {
  constructor (peerInfo, peerBook, options) {
    options = options || {}

    const discovery = new GossipDiscovery(this, 10)

    const modules = {
      transport: [
        new TCP()
      ],
      connection: {
        muxer: [
          multiplex
        ]
      }, discovery: [discovery]
    }

    super(modules, peerInfo, peerBook, options)
    discovery.attach(this)
  }
}

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const node = new Node(peerInfo)

node.start(() => {
  console.log('started!')
})