this is a toy implementation of the raft consensus algorithm in typescript. it is not intended for production use, but rather as a learning tool. It is based on the raft paper and the raft dissertation.
currently you run the script at ./scripts/test.sh and see the output, we currently do not reset the election timeouts so we constantly have elections. this is a work in progress. we will eventually have a cli so you can run a cluster of nodes and send messages to them.
raft is a protocol for distributed consensus. it is a way for a cluster of nodes to agree on a value. it is used in many distributed systems to ensure that all nodes in a cluster agree on the same value. it is used in many distributed databases, such as etcd and cockroachdb.