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Vanadium can be used to build secure, distributed applications for the web. Servers and clients can be written in JavaScript to run under a browser or Node.js and communicate via RPC.
By using the Vanadium Definition Language (VDL), Vanadium apps written in JavaScript can also communicate with Vanadium servers and clients written in other languages.
Chrome (desktop) is currently required for browser applications, but this will change in the future.
The following tutorials build on the Client/Server Basics tutorial and demonstrate Vanadium's JavaScript API. While the tutorials are targeted toward running in the browser, the code can be adapted to run in a Node.js environment.
Wherein Vanadium says hello in a peer-to-peer manner.
Wherein you build a fortune teller service and a client to talk to it.