darkfi/doc/src/learn/dchat/creating-dchatd/part-2.md

Part 2: Creating dchat

Now that we've deployed a local version of the p2p network, we can start creating a custom protocol and message types that dchat will use to send and receive messages across the network.

This section will cover:

• The Message type
• Protocols and the ProtocolRegistry
• The MessageSubsystem
• MessageSubscription
• Channel
• JSON-RPC RequestHandler
• StoppableTask