Paul Kinlan

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Paul is a Developer Advocate for Chrome and the Open Web at Google and loves to help make web development easier.

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Serverless Sync in Web Apps Using Bit Torrent

2016256 points55 comments Web & Frontend details

This post explores using WebTorrent for serverless data synchronization in web apps, demonstrated by modifying the Voice Memos PWA. The goal was to enable data sharing between devices without a backend server. The solution involves generating magnet URLs that allow peer-to-peer data transfer via WebTorrent. The demo…