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@insertish/isomorphic-ws
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Isomorphic implementation of WebSocket.
It uses:
Before using this module you should know that
ws
is not perfectly API compatible with
WebSocket,
you should always test your code against both Node and browsers.
Some major differences:
Server
implementation in browsersoptions
argument in browsersYou need to install both this package and ws:
> npm i isomorphic-ws ws
Then just require this package:
const WebSocket = require('isomorphic-ws');
const ws = new WebSocket('wss://echo.websocket.org/');
ws.onopen = function open() {
console.log('connected');
ws.send(Date.now());
};
ws.onclose = function close() {
console.log('disconnected');
};
ws.onmessage = function incoming(data) {
console.log(`Roundtrip time: ${Date.now() - data.data} ms`);
setTimeout(function timeout() {
ws.send(Date.now());
}, 500);
};
FAQs
Isomorphic implementation of WebSocket
The npm package @insertish/isomorphic-ws receives a total of 39 weekly downloads. As such, @insertish/isomorphic-ws popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that @insertish/isomorphic-ws demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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