holepunchto / holepunchto/hypercore

event for listening to bitfield updates

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Description

It would be useful to be able to listen to an event on the core and for each peer in core.peers to find out when a bitfield is updated. The end goal for this would be to create diffs of the bitfield changes. For example, this event might provide something like the values used in Peer.onbitfield & Peer.onrange.

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Research direction

Start with the linked Peer.onbitfield and Peer.onrange entry points in lib/replicator.js, then trace how updates are associated with core.peers. Define the core and per-peer event contract so consumers can observe the values needed to build bitfield diffs; completion should make those updates observable without ambiguity.

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Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
distributed-systems
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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