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It means Orbit is currently **not secure**, APIs will change and clients can break over time. If you come across problems, it would help greatly to open issues so that we can fix them as quickly as possible._\n\n## Clients\n\n**Browsers**\n\nOrbit chat application for the browsers.\n\nhttps://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-web\n\n\u003cimg src=\"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/orbitdb/orbit-web/master/screenshots/screenshot1.png\" width=\"49%\"\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/orbitdb/orbit-web/master/screenshots/screenshot2.png\" width=\"49%\"\u003e\n\n**Desktops**\n\nA desktop version of the Orbit chat application that can be run as a stand-alone app in OSX and Linux. *We're currently working on Windows support.*\n\nhttps://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-electron\n\n\u003cimg src=\"https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-electron/raw/master/screenshots/orbit-electron-screenshot1.png\" width=\"49%\"\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-electron/raw/master/screenshots/orbit-electron-screenshot2.png\" width=\"49%\"\u003e\n\n**Terminal**\n\nA prototype of a terminal client.\n\nhttps://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-textui\n\n## Core Library\n\n### orbit-core\n\nOrbit is intended to be embeddable in applications. `orbit-core` is a JavaScript implementation which can be used in Node.js, Browser and Electron applications and on websites.\n\n[orbit-core](https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-core)\n\n### orbit-db\n\nA serverless, p2p database built on IPFS. Orbit uses `orbit-db` to have a database for each channel in the chat network.\n\n[orbit-db](https://github.com/haadcode/orbit-db)\n\n### js-ipfs\n\nA new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol. Orbit uses IPFS as its data storage and [libp2p](https://github.com/libp2p/js-libp2p) to handle all the p2p networking.\n\n- [js-ipfs](https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs) - IPFS JavaScript implementation\n- [go-ipfs](https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs) - IPFS Go implementation\n- https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs - IPFS on Github\n- https://ipfs.io - IPFS Website\n\n## Contributing\n\nWe would be happy to accept PRs! If you want to work on something, it'd be good to talk beforehand to make sure nobody else is working on it. You can reach us on [on Gitter](https://gitter.im/orbitdb/Lobby), or in the comments of the [issues section](https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit/issues). At the moment, progress in this particular repo is on hold. PRs are unlikely to be merged, and the issues are a bit stale.\n\nWe also have **regular community calls**, which we announce in the issues in [the @orbitdb welcome repository](https://github.com/orbitdb/welcome/issues). Join us!\n\nFor specific guidelines for contributing to this repository, check out the [Contributing guide](CONTRIBUTING.md). For more on contributing to OrbitDB in general, take a look at the [@OrbitDB welcome repository](https://github.com/orbitdb/welcome). Please note that all interactions in [@OrbitDB](https://github.com/orbitdb) fall under our [Code of Conduct](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md).\n\n## License\n\n[MIT](LICENSE) © 2015-2018 Protocol Labs Inc., 2018-2019 Haja Networks Oy\n","funding_links":[],"categories":["JavaScript","Others"],"sub_categories":[],"project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Forbitdb-archive%2Forbit","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Forbitdb-archive%2Forbit","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Forbitdb-archive%2Forbit/lists"}