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Show HN: A Toy CLI Torrent Client

2 pointsby erlfire4 months ago
Hi HN,<p>I built a simple CLI torrent client as a learning project and wanted to share it! This was my way of exploring how the BitTorrent protocol works under the hood. It can handle basic torrent downloading, but it&#x27;s far from production-ready — definitely not something to rely on for serious usage.<p>The objective of this project was to gain a thorough understanding of how the BitTorrent protocol works (tracker communication, peer connections, piece downloading, etc.)<p>although it is not the ideal choice to make a torrent client due to performance issues, I chose to do it in NodeJS because it is the technology I feel most comfortable with at the moment.<p>Any feedback, suggestions, or discussions around torrenting protocols are welcome!<p>Cheers!

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