Question about running `swarm.peers()` in setInterval

[JohnAllen]

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@diasdavid: in this comment you said: Let's try one more thing, spawn several browser tabs with your code and instead of doing just once node.swarm.peers do it in a setInterval. . How does this work? Is it simply: running this function more than once tells the network to connect to more peers?`. This seems to be the case because the more times it is run the more peers I have. Wondering if there is more to it than that.

[daviddias]

oh these magic black boxes :) 🎩

ipfs.swarm.peers lists the peers connected, connecting to a peer is not instance, it has to go through an intense handshake of multistream -> secio -> multistream -> multiplex -> multistream, which can take some seconds per peer. The reason why you see more and more is because your now is not only connecting to the bootstrapper nodes, it is also connecting to other nodes it discovers and so, over time, the peer list will increase.

[daviddias]

@JohnAllen do you feel your question got answered?

[JohnAllen]

Yes, thanks, meant to close!