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clients-node
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###clients-node
Adds app.clients to Expressjs showing recently connected clients
###app.js
var express = require('express'), app = express();
var server = require('http').createServer(app)
server.listen(85);
require('./clients-node.js')(app, timeoutsec=5);
// app.clients is a list of recently connected clients
app.get('/', function(r,s){
// show clients list
s.send(app.clients)
})
// In 10 seconds, the clients should be gone from the list
setTimeout(function(){console.log(app.clients)}, 10000)
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Show recently connected clients in nodejs/express
The npm package clients-node receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, clients-node popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that clients-node 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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