Bitford - A Streaming BitTorrent Client for Chrome

Explore the development of Bitford, a streaming BitTorrent client for Chrome, in this RejectJS 2013 conference talk. Dive into the world of Chrome Packaged Apps and Mozilla Open Web Apps, learning how desktop applications can now be created using HTML and JavaScript. Discover the advantages these apps have over conventional web applications, focusing on the fileSystem and socket APIs. Gain insights into implementing the standard BitTorrent wire protocol over TCP using JavaScript, and learn practical techniques for processing binary data streams. Understand how to facilitate streaming to HTML5 media elements for near-immediate playback after loading a .torrent file. This talk provides essential information about BitTorrent and demonstrates how to bring advanced media distribution capabilities to the browser environment.