gerbu.blogg.se - Web torrent

We wanted a clean, lightweight, ad-free, open source torrent app.

We created WebTorrent Desktop for three reasons: Where does Electron come into the picture? Ībout one year ago, we decided to build WebTorrent Desktop, a version of WebTorrent that runs as a desktop app. WebTorrent is the first step in the journey to re-decentralize the Web.

No more client/server – just a network of peers, all equal. The more people that use a WebTorrent-powered website, the faster and more resilient it becomes.īrowser-to-browser communication cuts out the middle-man and lets people communicate on their own terms. Imagine a video site like YouTube, but where visitors help to host the site's content. You can see a demo of WebTorrent in action here: webtorrent.io. Using open web standards, WebTorrent connects website users together to form a distributed, decentralized browser-to-browser network for efficient file transfer.

No browser plugin, extension, or installation is required. It's written completely in JavaScript and it can use WebRTC for peer-to-peer transport. WebTorrent is the first torrent client that works in the browser. This week we caught up with and to talk about WebTorrent, the web-powered torrent client that connects users together to form a distributed, decentralized browser-to-browser network. Electron becomes an OpenJS Foundation Impact Project.

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