Havana browser

A client-side request/response dispatcher.

Havana browser intercepts click and popstate events, publishes a request.received event and subscribes to response.send events published by a response handler. When a response.send event is received Havana browser patches the DOM with the response content using virtual dom.

How to install

npm install havana-browser

How to use

import Browser from 'havana-browser';
import Event from 'havana-event';
 
const event = new Event();
 
const reporting = {
  'level': 2,
  'reporter': console.log.bind( console ),
};
 
const browser = new Browser({
  'event': event,
  'reporting': reporting,
});
 
// Add a response handler here
 
browser.listen();

Event list

Events take the form of Havana event or a library with an interchangeable API.

Publish

• request.listening: Signifies that Havana browser will now attempt to intercept click and popstate events.
• request.received: Signifies that Havana browser has received a request on the specified port, publishing the request data for consumption by response handlers.
• response.error: Signifies that all registered response handlers have failed to provide a response.

Subscribe

• response.handler.register: Allows a response handler to notify Havana browser that it will attempt to handle requests.
• response.handler.error: Allows a response handler to notify Havana browser that it has not been able to handle the request.
• response.send: Allows a response handler to notify Havana browser that it has handled the request successfully, publishing the response data for consumption by Havana browser.

ES2015+

Havana browser is written using ES2015+ syntax.

However, by default this module will use an ES5 compatible file that has been compiled using Babel.

In the dist directory there are two files, the default is browser.js.

Havana browser currently requires the Babel polyfill. You are expected to supply this yourself. However, as a courtesy you will also find browser.with-polyfill.js in the dist directory.