licy-websocket

licy-websocket.js

Licy wrapper for a WebSocket based on the websocket module.

Features

• Async creation: Function calls are automatically deferred until constructor invokes callback
• All function calls are observable and can be intercepted
• Create hierarchies of instances that get destroyed together

Usage

var WebSocket = require('licy-websocket').WebSocket;
 
var ws = new WebSocket('ws://localhost:1337', function () {
  console.log('ws connection established');
});
ws.on('message', function (event) {
  console.log('ws message: ' + event.data);
});
ws.on('close', function () {
  console.log('ws closed');
});

Install with npm

npm install licy-websocket --save

Browser support

Use Browserify to create a standalone file. The test suite passes on IE 10, 11, Chrome *, Filefox * and PhantomJS.

API

• var ws = new WebSocket(url[, protocols][, callback]): Creates a new W3C websocket and connect to the given URL. If protocols are specified, they are passed to the underlying implementation. If a callback is given, it is invoked with null once the connection was established successfully. If the connection cannot be established, the callback is invoked with an Error as the first argument.
• ws.send(data): Send data on the websocket.
• ws.close([code][, reason]): Close the websocket with an optional code and reason. The code defaults to 1000 and reason defaults to null.
• ws.destroy(): Calls close().

Events

• message: When a message was received. The only argument is the websocket event which has a data property.
• close: When the websocket was closed. The only argument is the websocket event which has a code and a reason property.
• error: When an error was received.

Development

• npm install to install the dev dependencies
• npm test to lint, run tests on Node and PhantomJS and check code coverage

License

MIT