Serve over torrent

[tejt99]

Hi, I don't actually use this as I have only started learning js this week but I like looking around GitHub.

What you've done is brilliant and I'm not even sure what I'm about to suggest is possible but, could you, in theory, put a small amount of js in your website and have the rest of this repository load over torrent?

If this is stupid just say.
Thanks.

[Fenny]

Hi @tejt99 good to hear you started learning js, welcome!

I'm not sure what you mean with

repository load over torrent

But you can load the whole webtorrent library on your website with cdnjs for example

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/webtorrent/0.107.16/webtorrent.min.js"></script>

Or import it like this

function Import(url) {
    return new Promise(resolve => {
      var e = document.createElement('script');
      e.src = url;
      e.type= 'text/javascript';
      e.addEventListener('load', resolve);
      document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(e);
    })
  }

Import('https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/webtorrent/0.107.16/webtorrent.min.js').then(() => {
  // Webtorrent is ready!
})

[tejt99]

What I mean is: host webtorrent.min.js and the associated files on a torrent, and load it with a small bit of js in the website.

[tejt99]

I believe it would be possible as when using instant.io, if your torrent contains a pdf or similar, it gives a preview before you download so clearly it is being cached somewhere.