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SomajitDey / ipfs-chat

Real-time P2P messenger using go-ipfs pubsub. TUI. End-to-end encrypted texting & file-sharing. NAT traversal.
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browser bridge? #11

Closed ROBERT-MCDOWELL closed 3 years ago

ROBERT-MCDOWELL commented 3 years ago

would be nice to see a webgui of your chat. with js-ipfs for exemple?

SomajitDey commented 3 years ago

Yes, that would indeed be great! ipfs-chat can have a flag such as -s to launch a server for the webui to connect to.

What more, if the browser can connect to the main go-ipfs node using websockets, two browsers can then exchange WebRTC signaling data without needing any separate signaling server. After that, there can be video/audio streams too!

But I am afraid this is beyond me, at least for now, because I am a novice at JS. I heartily welcome you and the community to take up the webui projects.

P.S. Decentralizing the IPFS WebRTC transport is currently a WIP. Once it is achieved, I am sure we will be seeing many truly server-less browser-based chat apps.

ROBERT-MCDOWELL commented 3 years ago

that's great indeed! for live streaming it would avoid a lot of streams duplications and bandwidth congestion! thanks for WIP info, I din't know this project.