WebTorrent Update - Decentralized Web Summit 2018

Feross shares an lightning talk update on the latest in the WebTorrent project , what's next for WebTorrent, and lessons that may help other decentralized web projects to achieve ease-of-use, adoption, and user growth.

WebTorrent: https://webtorrent.io
Event Link: https://www.decentralizedweb.net/

Transcript

1. Presented by Feross
   

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2. TORRENTS
   LARGEST P2P ECOSYSTEM
   

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3. WEB BROWSERS
   LARGEST APP RUNTIME
   

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4. TORRENTS
   > 250 million users
   > 20 million nodes online
   WEB BROWSERS
   > 4 billion users
   > 1 billion websites
   

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5. BRINGING P2P TO TODAY'S WEB
   

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6. BROWSER ® SERVER
   

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7. BROWSER ® BROWSER
   

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8. WEB RTC
   REAL-TIME COMMUNICATIONS
   

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9. DEMO
   

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10. HUNDREDS OF REAL USERS
    > CineTimes
    > PeerTube
    > Bitlove
    > live-torrent
    

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11. GET STARTED WITH <br/><script src="webtorrent.min.js">
    <br/>const client = new WebTorrent()<br/>const torrent = client.add('magnet:...')<br/>torrent.on('ready', () => {<br/>const file = torrent.files[0]<br/>file.appendTo(document.body)<br/>})<br/>
    webtorrent.min.js is loaded 2 million times per month
    

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12. LEARN MORE
    AT WEBTORRENT.IO
    

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13. THANKS!
    SAY HI AT FEROSS.ORG OR @FEROSS
    

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