TS Torrent

Very basic BitTorrent v1.0 spec client built in TypeScript. Primarily done to learn modern Node JS + TS.

Usage

npm run dev

Features

• Decodes tracker information from a .torrent file
• Queries tracker to discover peers
• Negotiates TCP connections to peers
• Leeches data from peers
• Validates downloaded pieces against SHA1 hashes
• Writes validated pieces to disk
• Restore progress on reboot

Missing

• Configure via command line arguments
• Announce progress to peers
• Seed data to peers
• Self-implemented bencode decode / encode
• Any tests :D