js-libp2p-tcp

Node.js implementation of the TCP module that libp2p uses, which implements the interface-connection interface for dial/listen.

Description

libp2p-tcp in Node.js is a very thin shim that adds support for dialing to a multiaddr. This small shim will enable libp2p to use other different transports.

Note: This module uses pull-streams for all stream based interfaces.

Example

const TCP = require('libp2p-tcp')
const multiaddr = require('multiaddr')
const pull = require('pull-stream')

const mh1 = multiaddr('/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/9090')
const mh2 = multiaddr('/ip6/::/tcp/9092')

const tcp = new TCP()

const listener = tcp.createListener(mh1, (socket) => {
  console.log('new connection opened')
  pull(
    pull.values(['hello']),
    socket
  )
})

listener.listen(() => {
  console.log('listening')

  pull(
    tcp.dial(mh1),
    pull.log,
    pull.onEnd(() => {
      tcp.close()
    })
  )
})

outputs

listening
new connection opened
hello

Installation

npm

> npm i libp2p-tcp

This module uses pull-streams

We expose a streaming interface based on pull-streams, rather then on the Node.js core streams implementation (aka Node.js streams). pull-streams offers us a better mechanism for error handling and flow control guarantees. If you would like to know more about what took us to make this migration, see the discussion at this issue.

You can learn more about pull-streams at:

• The history of Node.js streams, nodebp April 2014
• The history of streams, 2016
• pull-streams, the simple streaming primitive
• pull-streams documentation

Converting pull-streams to Node.js Streams

If you are a Node.js streams user, you can convert a pull-stream to Node.js Stream using the module pull-stream-to-stream, giving you an instance of a Node.js stream that is linked to the pull-stream. Example:

const pullToStream = require('pull-stream-to-stream')

const nodeStreamInstance = pullToStream(pullStreamInstance)
// nodeStreamInstance is an instance of a Node.js Stream

To learn more about his utility, visit https://pull-stream.github.io/#pull-stream-to-stream

API

libp2p-tcp accepts TCP addresses both IPFS and non IPFS encapsulated addresses, i.e:

/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/4001 /ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/4001/ipfs/QmHash

Both for dialing and listening.

License

MIT