blenderskool / blenderskool/blaze
Upgrade to webtorrent v2 (avoid downloads in RAM)
- Dominant language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 2.5k
- Forks
- 298
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
Main advantage of webtorrent v2: it [uses local storage](https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent/blob/v2.4.14/docs/api.md?plain=1#L120) as opposed to keeping the complete files in memory.
This is more scalable in terms of file size, and allows users to upload entire folders (with nested structure) to a receiver-specified local folder. Currently blaze is limited to a flat list of files going to the browser downloads.
Started the discussion here: https://github.com/blenderskool/blaze/pull/174#discussion_r1701773132
Potential implementation elaborated here: https://github.com/webtorrent/webtorrent/issues/2849
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start with the linked PR discussion and the WebTorrent issue to understand the proposed v2 integration and its local-storage behavior. The work is done when Blaze no longer keeps complete files in memory and supports uploading nested folders to a receiver-specified local folder instead of only browser downloads.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- full-stack
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100