Running a Convex Peer

A peer participates in consensus (CPoS), holds state in an Etch store, and optionally serves the REST API.

For local development and testing you almost always want the local-network skill instead — it starts a throwaway network in one command. Use this skill when running a peer against a real network, or setting up a new one.

peer accepts -c / --config for a configuration file.

Joining an Existing Network

java -jar convex.jar peer create --host <existing-peer>