ZipZap

What is ZipZap and what is it for?

ZipZap is a small messaging app for Holochain, built so that a conversation is not kept once it has happened. Messages travel directly between the people taking part while they are connected, and the project's own description says nothing is stored.

ZipZap appears among the Holochain projects of Lightningrod Labs, the studio that also builds Moss and Acorn. The organisation's own project list carries it as ephemeral chat for Holochain, and the repository introduces itself as a Holochain app for ephemeral messaging. The work is attributed to a single developer in the repository's contributor list.

Its point is the opposite of an ordinary chat app's. Rather than building a history you can scroll back through, ZipZap is meant for conversations that exist while the participants are present: Lightningrod Labs describes the messaging as peer-to-peer and built on Holochain's signalling system, and says that no data is stored. The signalling system is the part of Holochain that lets peers find and open direct connections to one another.

The repository's README is the main place to learn how the project is put together, and shows one concrete pattern: with 'npm start' it brings up two connected nodes, each with its own interface, while 'AGENTS=3 npm run network' bootstraps a bigger set of local peers. The same README documents packaging the app as a '.webhapp' for installation with the Holochain Launcher.

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