The latest articles on DEV Community by Stephen Yuan (@syuan16). https://dev.to/syuan16 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F393202%2Fd8539f99-4603-4898-917d-e0d6404d6e84.jpeg https://dev.to/syuan16 en Stephen Yuan Sat, 23 May 2020 01:54:44 +0000 https://dev.to/syuan16/bittorrent-1oj0 https://dev.to/syuan16/bittorrent-1oj0 <p>[Comment]: This is a personal project I have been doing since March. The project is to use Go to implement a BitTorrent client that downloads and distributes files across the Internet. I followed a blog post to build the client from scratch and I have really liked the progress so far. I learned a lot about both Golang and the BitTorrent protocol, which is a very popular peer-to-peer protocol for file distribution over the Internet. </p> <p>[Note]: The original idea and implementation of this project is from another <a href="https://blog.jse.li/posts/torrent/" rel="noopener noreferrer">post</a>. I started this project for the purpose of learning Golang and BitTorrent. </p> <h2> My Final Project </h2> <p>(Since the project is still under development, I will post a sample demo here) <br> <a href="https://asciinema.org/a/xqRSB0Jec8RN91Zt89rbb9PcL" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img src="https://media.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=800%2Cheight=%2Cfit=scale-down%2Cgravity=auto%2Cformat=auto/https%3A%2F%2Fasciinema.org%2Fa%2FxqRSB0Jec8RN91Zt89rbb9PcL.svg" alt="asciicast"></a></p> <h2> Link to Code </h2> <p><a href="https://github.com/syuan16/BitTorrent" rel="noopener noreferrer">Github Repo</a></p> <h2> How I built it (what's the stack? did I run into issues or discover something new along the way?) </h2> <p>I used Golang. The concurrency channel of Golang makes it really easy to manage different peers in a single BitTorrent client program. </p> <h2> Additional Thoughts / Feelings / Stories </h2> <p>The project is still under development and will see constant commits. Please let me know what you think about the project! </p> go bittorrent