From ff26e175a84d051136da6cc12704a3a5d40c0232 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Keane <james.keane.github@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 02:59:28 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Added usage example in README.

Also made the DHT constructor a bit more user friendly.
---
 README.md    | 12 ++++++++++++
 index.js     |  1 -
 package.json |  2 +-
 src/index.js |  2 ++
 4 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 index.js

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a1f6430..7160dfb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,3 +4,15 @@ An implementation of the Kademlia DHT.
 Supports:
  - BEP-42 with `sse4_crc32` optional dependency.
  - BEP-44 with `ed25519-supercop` optional dependency.
+
+## Usage
+```javascript
+	import DHT from 'kadem';
+
+	// load DHT from stored state file; if it doesn't
+	// exist or is not provided it'll bootstrap itself.
+	const dht = DHT.load('.dht_state');
+	dht.listen(/** listening port, can be anything */ 8468);
+
+	const value = await dht.get({ k: key, salt: salt });
+```
diff --git a/index.js b/index.js
deleted file mode 100644
index f472c54..0000000
--- a/index.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-module.exports = require('./src/index');
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 0693b29..040a52e 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "name": "kadem",
   "version": "1.0.0",
   "description": "",
-  "main": "index.js",
+  "main": "src/index.js",
   "scripts": {
     "test": "mocha test/**/*.js"
   },
diff --git a/src/index.js b/src/index.js
index f2ba24b..b376385 100644
--- a/src/index.js
+++ b/src/index.js
@@ -155,6 +155,8 @@ util.inherits(DHT, EventEmitter);
  * @param {string} filename The filename to load from.
  */
 DHT.load = function(filename) {
+  if (filename == undefined || !fs.existsSync(filename)) return new DHT();
+
   let state = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(filename).toString('utf-8'));
   return new DHT({
     K: state.K,