tokalite

An alternative api for the opentok js library.

Install

$ npm install --save tokalite

Usage

Publish to a session and subscribe to all streams

'use strict';
 
var tokalite = require('tokalite');
 
var token = '(your opentok token)';
 
Promise.all(
  tokalite.connect(token),
  tokalite.createPublisher()
).then(function(res) {
  var session = res[0];
  var publisher = res[1];
 
  publisher.publish(session);
 
  session.on('stream', function(stream) {
    stream.subscribe();
  });
});

tokalite.connect(token)

Takes an opentok token and returns a promise to a Session.

Session

Method	Description
.isConnected()	Returns a boolean indicating whether the connection is still alive.
.getDisconnectionPromise()	Returns a promise that resolves when the session is disconnected.
.getStreams()	Returns an array of external streams associated with the session (no publishers).

Event	Description
stream	Emits a Stream when one becomes available.

Stream

Method	Description
.subscribe(targetElement?, properties?)	Returns a promise to a Subscriber. Optional arguments targetElement and properties are passed to session.subscribe in opentok.js
.isConnected()	Returns a boolean indicating whether the stream is still available.
.getDisconnectionPromise()	Returns a promise that resolves when the stream becomes unavailable.

Subscriber

Method	Description
remove	Removes the subscriber from the DOM and the subscription to the stream.

Property	Description
stream	The stream being subscribed to.

tokalite.createPublisher(targetElement?, properties?)

Returns a promise to a Publisher. targetElement and properties are optional and passed to OT.initPublisher().

Publisher

Method	Description
.publish(session)	Publishes to the provided session. Returns a promise to a PublishHandle.
.remove()	Removes the publisher from the DOM and any session published to.

PublishHandle

Method	Description
.stop()	Stops publishing to the session.

License

MIT © Andrew Morris