documentation request -- gossipping

[nichoth]

It's not clear to me from the readme how gossip would work here. And more broadly, is this compatible with existing ssb-* secret-stack plugins? The older ssb-server readme shows an example like this:

var Server = require('ssb-server')
var config = require('ssb-config')

// add plugins
Server
  .use(require('ssb-master'))
  .use(require('ssb-gossip'))
  .use(require('ssb-replicate'))
  .use(require('ssb-backlinks'))

var server = Server(config)

Using ssb-db2, could you add the same plugins?

const sbot = SecretStack({ caps })
  .use(require('ssb-db2'))
  .use(require('ssb-gossip'))
  .call(null, { path: './' })

[staltz]

Those are independent concerns. ssb-db2 is about storing and querying data, ssb-gossip deprecated ssb-conn is about connecting to peers (merely connecting!) and then ssb-replicate deprecated ssb-ebt is about replicating peers. It's not concern of this module to describe connections and replication, it's the concern of some dev guide like dev.scuttlebutt.nz to describe all the plugins you need and how to get replication to interact with the db.

[nichoth]

thanks @staltz for the tips about other modules

Yes I realize they are separate concerns — DB vs connections/replication.

Then there is the other issue… where to put documentation when you have many modules that are independent, but work well together, and are kind of expected to be used simultaneously. I actually didn't check dev.scuttlebutt.nz, b/c i thought it wouldn't be up to date, but I see now it does have a section about this repo — https://dev.scuttlebutt.nz/#/javascript/?id=ssb-db2