WebFlight for React

WebFlight enables the users visiting a site to serve the content of that site. P2P content sharing technology powered with :heart: by WebTorrent!

STATUS: WebFlight and WebFlight-React are currently in alpha. If you find a bug, please open an issue on GitHub.

Install

npm install webflight-react

Usage: Server

* WebFlight currently depends on Node v5.x.

It's easy to incorporate WebFlight into your existing site! Just provide us with a few details on where to find the assets you want to seed, and we'll take care of the rest.

Initialize WebFlight

const WebFlight = require('webflight-react')

const webflight = new WebFlight(options, serverRoot)

webflight.init()

app.use(webflight.redirect.bind(wf))

Options

siteUrl - Your website url assetsPath - The absolute path(s) to the folder(s) containing your assets serverRoot - The root path on your server wfPath - (optional) The folder WebFlight files will appear in wfRoute - (optional) The route that retrieves WebFlight files seedScript - (optional) The script that will initialize seeding your assets so they're ready to be downloaded by users after the userCount threshold is passed devMode - (optional) Defaults to true while in development and does not run Xvfb

{
  siteUrl: String             // Required
  assetsPath: String|Array    // Required
  serverRoot: String          // Required
  wfPath: String              // Optional - defaults to '/wfPath'
  seedScript: String          // Optional - defaults to 'wf-seed.js'
  devMode: Boolean            // Optional - defaults to true
}

webflight.init()

Makes a copy of your site in wfPath folder and begins seeding assets. NOTE: Check your terminal to see bot's seeding status.

webflight.redirect()

Redirects all requests to siteUrl to the WebFlight version of your site where users will begin to download assets from the peer network.

Usage: React

** currently compatible with image assets only*

import WebFlight from 'webflight-react/components/WebFlight'

Replace any image tags with WebFlight components and an src tag:

<WebFlight src="imgs/bird.jpg" />

NOTE: You can add any additional props to the component as usual:

<WebFlight src="imgs/bird.jpg" style={{background: 'black'}} onClick={this.update} />

License

MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) Team WebFlight

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The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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