11.0.0 beta - Earthstar × Willow
Pre-release
Good morning! The day for an Willow-powered Earthstar 11 beta is finally here. This is a big experiment: a new protocol underpinning everything, complementary new APIs, and of course, the greatest adventure of them all: getting it all to work in JavaScript.
Another experiment is how Earthstar will be distributed. A beta release of @earthstar/earthstar is available from JSR. https://jsr.io/@earthstar/earthstar@11.0.0-beta.2. You can find installation instructions for your favourite runtime (yes, Node too) on there. Hopefully JSR will save us from lots of cross-runtime publishing headaches, let’s see.
The README is very much in progress (https://github.com/earthstar-project/earthstar/tree/willow), but there is already very descriptive API documentation available in your IDE and viewable here: https://jsr.io/@earthstar/earthstar@11.0.0-beta.2/doc. A great place to start is the Peer class: https://jsr.io/@earthstar/earthstar@11.0.0-beta.2/doc/~/Peer
This beta phase serves the purpose of making sure @earthstar/earthstar can really be used to build apps for the browser, Deno, and Node; that the APIs are as ergonomic as they should be; and to get the docs up to snuff. Your feedback — no matter how nitpicky — is now key! Issues, ideas, and PRs are all welcome on the Earthstar repo.