Build a decentralized web chat in 15 minutes

Wed 27 March 2019

This post originally appeared on the David Walsh blog.

In this 15 minute tutorial we're going to build a simple decentralized chat application which runs entirely in a web browser.

All you will need is a text editor, a web browser, and a basic knowledge of how to save HTML files and open them in the browser.

Diagram of how WebRTC works browser to browser

We're going to use Bugout, a JavaScript library that takes care of the peer-to-peer networking and cryptography.

Get the full tutorial on GitHub

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