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about the book

Peer-to-Peer Web Applications takes you beyond toy examples and basic tutorials to build a complete peer-to-peer web app from start to finish. Chapter-by-chapter, you’ll iterate and improve on “Code Radio”, a music streaming service that runs entirely on user’s machines. As you go, you’ll learn how to create web client applications that connect directly to other clients without the need for a central server.

Add new features like client-side storage and compute, peer-to-peer connections, and use PublicKey and Zero-Knowledge cryptography to set up authentication and certify updates. Once your app is built and upgraded, you’ll begin to explore the blockchain. You’ll implement a payment feature using different blockchain offerings, comparing and contrasting their ecosystems and workflows. By the time you’re done tinkering, your Code Radio app will be a complex, commercial grade application with a polished user experience—and absolutely no centralized server!

about the reader

For intermediate web developers familiar with JavaScript and the basics of the cloud.

about the author

Steven Platt holds a bachelor’s degree in electronic systems technology (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, US), a master’s in business administration (Illinois State University, US), a master’s of wireless communications (Barcelona Schools of Telecommunications Engineering, Spain), and PhD in blockchain technologies (Pompeu Fabra University, Spain). His fifteen years in industry have included roles at both Salesforce and Twitter.