github.com/attic-labs/noms@v0.0.0-20210827224422-e5fa29d95e8b/samples/go/decent/README.md (about)

     1  # About
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     3  This directory contains two sample applications that demonstrate using Noms in a decentralized environment.
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     5  Both applications implement multiuser chat, using different strategies.
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     7  `p2p-chat` is the simplest possible example: a fully local noms replica is run on each node, and all nodes synchronize continuously with each other over HTTP.
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     9  `ipfs-chat` backs Noms with the [IPFS](https://ipfs.io/) network, so that nodes don't have to keep a full local replica of all data. However, because [Filecoin](http://filecoin.io/) doesn't yet exist, *some node* does have to keep a full replica, so ipfs-chat has a `daemon` mode so that you can run a persistent node somewhere to be the replica of last resort.