Note: this app is a very early work in progress. It currently only supports adding a single torrent and streaming torrent videos, but it will eventually be a full-fledged streaming bittorrent client ala Vuze or uTorrent with the added benefit of being built off of webtorrent. This means that seeders of the app will be facilitating plugin-free web-based bittorrent over WebRTC!
Please see the list of issues tracking the project's status. Contributions are very welcome, even if it's just trying the app out and reporting bugs :)
Webtorrent.app is a node-webkit angularjs application built off of webtorrent. An underlying webtorrent client, which manages the actual bittorrent connections and downloading, is spawned as a child process that communicates with the main node-webkit app via websockets courtesy of express.io (express+socket.io).
The app bootstraps by loading index.html, and it's reasonably easy to follow the logic from there.
Install bower (web package manager) and gulp (build system). Note that you do not need to install grunt; the Gruntfile exists strictly as an internal workaround for building the node-webkit app.
npm install -g bower gulp nodewebkit
Initialize dependencies.
npm install
bower install
Compile local distribution.
gulp
You can now run npm start to run the local version of the app. This is mainly used for debugging during development.
To build release distributions, run
gulp nodewebkit
This will build executables for Windows, Mac OS, 32-bit Linux, and 64-bit Linux under build/releases/webtorrent.
MIT. Copyright (c) Feross Aboukhadijeh.
