# App ecosystem planning

_Help · started by Blastertoad on Wed, Oct 14, 2026 6:40 PM_

Tags: Question, Help

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## Original post

**Blastertoad** · Wed, Oct 14, 2026 6:40 PM

I think I understand the basics of rns and setting up nodes, messaging with sideband / meshchat etc. 

What i am currently struggling on as I plan projects around rns is planning how multiple clients or apps are to coexist on a system. Let's for instance consider breaking nomad net out to a dedicated browser. Now if a user downloads NomadBrowser, is it going to look for rns running, is rns packaged with it like meshchat so running browser is an rns instance. Or should it be a dependency to download an rns deamon.

When we have browsers, rngit, games, etc. built utilizing rns what is the desired or recommended method here of connecting to or packaging rns. I thinks its a little wasteful for everything to be an instance of rns and need configuring.

Then if you are running a dockerized node, how are apps supposed to use this. Does a game server docker need an rns instance to connect to the node docker? Or a partyline server docker etc.

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## Reply 1

**burger** · Wed, Oct 14, 2026 7:59 PM

Shared instances

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