Utils overview

Utils package include general utils modules used in building Web Monetized applications.

Backend

• accounts - Handles user specific accounts storing the payment balance of each user.
• receipt - Verifies that receipts sent from browser matches the data in recipe service. Increases user account balance accordingly.
• streamingFileMeta - Analyses media files (audio and video), including their price per byte value.
• pipeStream - Handles media file streams from backend to browser, making payments on the fly.
• text - Parses text file contents, including word counts that are used in calculating their price.

Client

• monetize - Handles <meta name="monetization"> -tag and monetization events.
• user - Remembers users by storing a random uuid in the browser.
• client - small utils functions.