darkfi/doc/src/learn/dchat/dchat.md

Dchat: Writing a p2p app

This tutorial will teach you how to deploy an app on DarkFi's p2p network.

We will create a terminal-based p2p chat app called dchat. The chat app has two parts: a p2p daemon called dchatd and a python command-line tool for interacting with the daemon called dchat-cli.

Dchat will showcase some key concepts that you'll need to develop on the p2p network, in particular:

• Creating a p2p daemon.
• Understanding inbound, outbound and seed nodes.
• Writing and registering a custom Protocol.
• Creating and subscribing to a custom Message type.

The source code for this tutorial can be found at example/dchat.