Making a simple terminal based chat app wiht libp2p. This chat should allow users to jump between different chat rooms. Also, users are allowed to change their usernames at any point they choose to do so.
Application can be invoked without any flags, it then joins the default loby room as a anon user.
We can modify this by passing -user and -room flags.
The method of peer discovery can also be modified by using the -discover flag. Valid flag values are announce and advertise. The application default is advertise.
Application runtime can be modified to user different loglevels using the -log flag. Valid values are trace, debug, info, warn and error. The application default is info.
Application can be istalled with
go install .
and then to run it use
p2pchat -username X -room Y
Or, we could just run it like
go run . -username X -room Y
Would love to try out and implement:
- Kademlia DHT for peer discovery and routing
- TLS encryption
- Peer active discovery
- YAMUX stream multiplexing
- NAT traversal
- AutoRelay
- Support for QUIC transport
- Use Protocol buffers for message endcoding
- Chat Room notifications
- Password protected Chat Rooms
- Support other PubSub routers (FloodSub, RandomSub, EpiSub)