From af0048991c33ee76fd5423f944f1a3a28cb0c2e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Karsten Ohme <karsten.ohme@ohmesoftware.de>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2024 22:45:21 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Error: PublishError.InsufficientPeers (#1149)

* Error: PublishError.InsufficientPeers

Prevent Error: PublishError.InsufficientPeers when starting alone

* Update README.md

added whitespace

* Update README.md

spacing corrected
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 README.md | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index b7e3cd7..888e9cb 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -45,9 +45,23 @@ If you're using `@orbitdb/core` to develop **browser** or **Node.js** applicatio
 ```javascript
 import { createHelia } from 'helia'
 import { createOrbitDB } from '@orbitdb/core'
+import { gossipsub } from "@chainsafe/libp2p-gossipsub";
+import { identify } from "@libp2p/identify";
+import { createLibp2p } from 'libp2p'
+
+const Libp2pOptions = {
+  services: {
+    pubsub: gossipsub({
+      // neccessary to run a single peer
+      allowPublishToZeroPeers: true
+    }),
+    identify: identify()
+  }
+}
 
 ;(async function () {
-  const ipfs = await createHelia()
+  const libp2p = await createLibp2p({ ...Libp2pOptions })
+  const ipfs = await createHelia({libp2p})
   const orbitdb = await createOrbitDB({ ipfs })
 
   // Create / Open a database. Defaults to db type "events".
@@ -78,6 +92,7 @@ import { createOrbitDB } from '@orbitdb/core'
   await orbitdb.stop()
   await ipfs.stop()
 })()
+
 ```
 
 To configure your [IPFS instance](https://github.com/ipfs/helia) for persistency and [Libp2p](https://github.com/libp2p/js-libp2p) to connect to peers, see [Creating a Helia instance](https://github.com/orbitdb/quickstart/blob/main/src/index.js) and the [Default Libp2p Configurations](https://github.com/orbitdb/quickstart/blob/main/src/config/libp2p/index.js) in [@orbitdb/quickstart](https://github.com/orbitdb/quickstart/blob/main/src/config/libp2p/index.js) for examples.