@firebase/webchannel-wrapper
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A wrapper of the webchannel packages from closure-library for use outside of a closure compiled application
NOTE: This is specifically tailored for Firebase JS SDK usage, if you are not a member of the Firebase team, please avoid using this package
This is a wrapper of some Webchannel Features for the Firebase JS SDK.
The following 5 modules are exposed for use:
createWebChannelTransportErrorCodeEventTypeWebChannelXhrIoPoolYou can include these by doing the following:
ES Modules
import { WebChannel } from '@firebase/webchannel-wrapper'
// Do stuff with WebChannel
CommonJS Modules
const webchannelWrapper = require('@firebase/webchannel-wrapper');
// Do stuff with webchannelWrapper.ErrorCode, webchannelWrapper.EventType, etc
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A wrapper of the webchannel packages from closure-library for use outside of a closure compiled application
The npm package @firebase/webchannel-wrapper receives a total of 2,767,809 weekly downloads. As such, @firebase/webchannel-wrapper popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @firebase/webchannel-wrapper demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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