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## Peer-to-peer Matrix ## Peer-to-peer Matrix
These are the instructions for setting up P2P Dendrite, current as of March 2020. There's both Go stuff and JS stuff to do to set this up. These are the instructions for setting up P2P Dendrite, current as of May 2020. There's both Go stuff and JS stuff to do to set this up.
### Dendrite ### Dendrite
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### Riot-web ### Riot-web
You need to check out these repos: You need to check out this repo:
``` ```
$ git clone git@github.com:matrix-org/go-http-js-libp2p.git $ git clone git@github.com:matrix-org/go-http-js-libp2p.git
$ git clone git@github.com:matrix-org/go-sqlite3-js.git
``` ```
Make sure to `yarn install` in both of these repos. Then: Make sure to `yarn install` in the repo. Then:
- `$ cp "$(go env GOROOT)/misc/wasm/wasm_exec.js" ./src/vector/` - `$ cp "$(go env GOROOT)/misc/wasm/wasm_exec.js" ./src/vector/`
- Comment out the lines in `wasm_exec.js` which contains: - Comment out the lines in `wasm_exec.js` which contains:
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- Add the following symlinks: they HAVE to be symlinks as the diff in `webpack.config.js` references specific paths. - Add the following symlinks: they HAVE to be symlinks as the diff in `webpack.config.js` references specific paths.
``` ```
$ cd node_modules $ cd node_modules
$ ln -s ../../go-sqlite-js # NB: NOT go-sqlite3-js
$ ln -s ../../go-http-js-libp2p $ ln -s ../../go-http-js-libp2p
``` ```
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Assuming you've `yarn start`ed Riot-Web, go to `http://localhost:8080` and register with `http://localhost:8080` as your HS URL. Assuming you've `yarn start`ed Riot-Web, go to `http://localhost:8080` and register with `http://localhost:8080` as your HS URL.
You can join rooms by room alias e.g `/join #foo:bar`. You can:
- join rooms by room alias e.g `/join #foo:bar`.
### Known issues - invite specific users to a room.
- explore the published room list. All members of the room can re-publish aliases (unlike Synapse).
- When registering you may be unable to find the server, it'll seem flakey. This happens because the SW, particularly in Firefox,
gets killed after 30s of inactivity. When you are not registered, you aren't doing `/sync` calls to keep the SW alive, so if you
don't register for a while and idle on the page, the HS will disappear. To fix, unregister the SW, and then refresh the page.
- The libp2p layer has rate limits, so frequent Federation traffic may cause the connection to drop and messages to not be transferred.
I guess in other words, don't send too much traffic?