Raft

Over IRC

The Raft protocol keeps data in sync across (possibly partitioned) remote nodes.

I'm writing a Raft client from scratch to investigate its uses.

IRC is the communication medium, although it could easily be adapted to MQTT or TCP.
I probably won't use 150-300ms polling time like Raft recommends. That's way too fast for IRC.
The node will replicate a single string value as its state.
I will flash state to floppy disk when logs are committed because that's the only reasonable thing to do. It's an old "AOL Autodialer" disk, in case you need specifics.


npm install
npm start

Leader election sorta-kinda-works.
Leader will accept write commands like set 5.
NEXT TASK: Start writing replication logic in RaftNode#doWrite().
I left some comments in the source of doWrite() and also half finished peer_directory.ts.

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__tests__		__tests__
.gitignore		.gitignore
consts.ts		consts.ts
index.ts		index.ts
irc.ts		irc.ts
log_entry.ts		log_entry.ts
package.json		package.json
peer_directory.ts		peer_directory.ts
raft_node.ts		raft_node.ts
readme.md		readme.md
scrathcpad.js		scrathcpad.js
tsconfig.json		tsconfig.json
util.ts		util.ts