#1352·peerjs

bug in docs on peerjs.com

Author: magptsCreated Oct 27, 2025Updated Feb 24, 2026
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What happened?

this costed me HOURS to find out the tutorial on the front page of peerjs.com has a bug:
IT SHOULD READ conn.peer

How can we reproduce the issue?

on peerjs.com IT SHOULD READ conn.peer instead of

Data connections
Connect
var conn = peer.connect('another-peers-id');
// on open will be launch when you successfully connect to PeerServer
conn.on('open', function(){
  // HERE YOU HAVE CONN.ID        <<<<<<<<<
  conn.send('hi!');
});

What do you expected to happen?

i have forked the repo and added a clarification comment to readme.md,
but github wont let me pull request to your repo. likely cause I have just registered here to report this (I am on codeberg)

  • please pull/merge the clarified readme.md from
    https://github.com/magpts/peerjs.git

  • update the front page on peerjs.com to to contain a comment line something like

    Data connections
    Connect
    var conn = peer.connect('another-peers-id');
    // on open will be launch when you successfully connect to PeerServer
    conn.on('open', function(){
      // ID of the other end is conn.peer        <<<<<<<<<
      conn.send('hi!');
    });

Environment setup

  • OS: -
  • Platform: js
  • Browser: ff

Is this a regression?

No response

Anything else?

No response