cometd

The CometD Project

Welcome to the CometD Project, a scalable comet (server push) and websocket messaging library for the web.

This repository mirrors the JavaScript sources hosted at the main CometD repository. Those JavaScript sources are not suitable to be consumed with NPM, and are therefore re-arranged in this repository for to make it simpler to use CometD with NPM.

License

The CometD source code is released under the Apache 2.0 License.

Installation

npm install cometd

Usage

var lib = require('cometd');
var cometd = new lib.CometD();
cometd.configure({
    url: 'http://host/cometd'
});

// Handshake with the server.
cometd.handshake(function(h) {
    if (h.successful) {
        // Subscribe to receive messages from the server.
        cometd.subscribe('/topic', function(m) {
            var dataFromServer = message.data;
            // Use dataFromServer.
        });
    }
});