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Streaming parser and serialiser for IRC protocol data.
This module allows you to consume and produce IRC protocol messages. It doesn't contain any logic, leaving that up to the developer. Also everything is streams.
Available via npm:
$ npm install irc-protocol
Or via git:
$ git clone git://github.com/deoxxa/irc-protocol.git node_modules/irc-protocol
Also see proxy.js.
#!/usr/bin/env node
var net = require("net"),
IRCProtocol = require("./index");
var server = net.createServer(function(local) {
var local_parser = new IRCProtocol.Parser(),
remote_parser = new IRCProtocol.Parser(),
local_serialiser = new IRCProtocol.Serialiser(),
remote_serialiser = new IRCProtocol.Serialiser();
var remote = net.createConnection(6667, "127.0.0.1");
local.pipe(local_parser).pipe(local_serialiser).pipe(remote);
remote.pipe(remote_parser).pipe(remote_serialiser).pipe(local);
local_serialiser.on("data", function(data) { process.stdout.write(">> " + data); });
remote_serialiser.on("data", function(data) { process.stdout.write("<< " + data); });
});
server.listen(6668);
3-clause BSD. A copy is included with the source.
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Streaming parser and serialiser for IRC protocol data
We found that irc-protocol demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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