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A supply chain attack on Axios introduced a malicious dependency, plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, published minutes earlier and absent from the project’s GitHub releases.
This library provides a STOMP client for Web browser (using Web Sockets) or node.js applications (either using raw TCP sockets or Web Sockets).
This project is no longer maintained (some context about this decision).
If you encounter bugs with it or need enhancements, you can fork it and modify it as the project is under the Apache License 2.0.
The library file is located in lib/stomp.js (a minified version is available in lib/stomp.min.js).
It does not require any dependency (except WebSocket support from the browser or an alternative to WebSocket!)
Online documentation describes the library API (including the annotated source code).
Install the 'stompjs' module
$ npm install stompjs
In the node.js app, require the module with:
var Stomp = require('stompjs');
To connect to a STOMP broker over a TCP socket, use the Stomp.overTCP(host, port) method:
var client = Stomp.overTCP('localhost', 61613);
To connect to a STOMP broker over a WebSocket, use instead the Stomp.overWS(url) method:
var client = Stomp.overWS('ws://localhost:61614');
For development (testing, building) the project requires node.js. This allows us to run tests without the browser continuously during development (see cake watch).
$ npm install
To build JavaScript from the CoffeeScript source code:
$ cake build
To run tests:
$ cake test
To continuously run tests on file changes:
$ cake watch
The project contains examples for using stomp.js to send and receive STOMP messages from a server directly in the Web Browser or in a WebWorker.
FAQs
STOMP for JavaScript apps (Web browser & node.js). Modified for CommonJS.
We found that dl-stompjs 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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