@openfin/node-adapter

OpenFin Node.js adapter

Allows the use of the OpenFin API from node.js. Please note that the launch and connect methods are specific to a node environment.

Prerequisites

• Node.js 20 or greater

Usage

Connect

connect can be used to establish a connection to an OpenFin runtime from node.

A uuid value must be provided to identify the connection. Multiple connections require distinct uuid values.

A Runtime version or manifest URL must also be specified.

Note: connect instantiates a Runtime instance if one does not exist for the given configuration. If a Runtime is already running, connect simply establishes a new connection.

Connecting via Runtime Version

import { connect } from '@openfin/node-adapter';

(async () => {
    const fin = await connect({
        uuid: 'my-uuid-123',
        runtime: {
            version: 'stable'
        }
    });
    await fin.Platform.startFromManifest('http://www.your-domain-goes-here.com/manifest.json');
})();

Connecting via Manifest URL

import { connect } from '@openfin/node-adapter';

(async () => {
    const fin = await connect({
        uuid: 'connection-id',
        manifestUrl: 'http://www.your-domain-goes-here.com/manifest'
    });
})();

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Launch

Unlike connect, launch starts an OpenFin application if not running and returns a port number instead of a fin object.

This port number can be provided to connect to create a fin object for the Runtime that has been created on the specific port.

launch can be called multiple times for a given application; however launches for an application that is already running result in a run-requested event being triggered instead of a relaunch. If the application is an OpenFin platform, this scenario results in the layout windows reloading.

Launching and Connecting via Port

import { launch, connect } from '@openfin/node-adapter';

(async () => {
    const port = await launch({
        manifestUrl: 'http://www.your-domain-goes-here.com/manifest'
    });

    const fin = await connect({
        address: `ws://localhost:${port}`,
        uuid: 'external-app-via-launch'
    });

    console.log(await fin.System.getRuntimeInfo());
})();

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Types

@openfin/node-adapter comes bundled with its own types.

If you wish to explicitly reference OpenFin types, the OpenFin namespace export can be used as follows:

Type Usage Example

import OpenFin, { connect } from '@openfin/node-adapter';

(async () => {
    const fin: OpenFin.Fin<'external connection'> = await connect({
        uuid: 'connection-id'
    });
    const platform: OpenFin.Platform = await fin.Platform.startFromManifest(
        'http://www.your-domain-goes-here.com/manifest'
    );
})();

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Migrating from openfin-adapter to @openfin/node-adapter

For users of the connect and launch functions in openfin-adapter, no changes are necessary, other than updating the dependency name.

If you are using the exported types from openfin-adapter, you can now use the OpenFin export that encapsualates them.

Before

import { launch, connect, Application, Fin } from 'openfin-adapter';

(async () => {
    const fin: Fin = await connect({
        uuid: 'external-connection-1',
        runtime: { version: 'stable' }
    });
    const app: Application = await fin.Application.start({...});
})()

After

import OpenFin, { launch, connect } from '@openfin/node-adapter';
(async () => {
    const fin: OpenFin.Fin<'external connection'> = await connect({
        uuid: 'external-connection-1',
        runtime: { version: 'stable' }
    });
    const app: OpenFin.Application = await fin.Application.start({...});
})()

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Further Reading

• Developer guide
• API reference