Bittorrent like client in tauri and leptos using iroh

[amiyatulu]

Bittorrent client provide following useful properties, that are user-friendly.

1. User statistics, number of seeders and leechers
2. Splitting files into chunks that can be downloaded part by part from different peers
   It's a useful feature, to download a file from multiple peers, rather than single peer
3. Content discovery, already build in Iroh experiments

Such client build on tauri can serve as general purpose client to host file (in all platforms), also for building dapps for developer, adapting it by taking the example as template. It's better to build fronted in leptos, so that its completely build on rust. Leptos is also a mature framework.

[matheus23]

You might want to join forces with @philrhc who's recently been looking into getting swarmie up on its feet again :)

[amiyatulu]

Swarmie is not yet stable yet. Looking at road map. Browser support may wait for some time, as we have tauri to support all platforms. Browser support seems a hard job. User prefer apps rather than browser for things like watching videos, or social media. Just demo sites can be build with iroh gateway for browser and search engines and site may ask for app to download. They may concentrate on making connection more robust and easier with no connection failure similar to uTorrent app. But iroh can provide api to build any kind of app using tauri.

[amiyatulu]

One app for bittorrenting and iroh

[philrhc]

some good discussion about the practical aspects of BitTorrent integration: https://discord.com/channels/1161119546170687619/1300575236709941351

[amiyatulu]

Main problem of bittorrent is this.

Its hard to host and query smaller files.

https://superuser.com/questions/483285/how-to-edit-the-list-of-files-to-download-in-a-torrent-file

which CID solves.

If you create a new torrent file, by assembling list of smaller files, you will lose the seeders.

Otherwise bittorrent has most desired features.

[amiyatulu]

I think cid is one of the main reason, why bittorrent didn't took over the decentralized app space, despite robust connectivity and scalability. Also, most torrent clients are in C++, so hard to maintain and build on it which is not the case with rust.

#3208