line-mesh

line-mesh

line-mesh is a lightweight communication library that bears non-blocking interface and p2p scalable architecture. line-mesh is the cousin of line, they share very similar apis. line internally monitors connection health, and it pro-actively strives to achieve a stable connection.

line runs on Node.JS and all modern browsers through an identical API. Therefore, it is a good candidate for cross-platform applications.

Key Features

• p2p: There is no server similar to bit-torrent, sopcast, popcorn-time 🔥
• Cross platform: Works on MacOS, Linux, Windows and browsers
• Developed in ES6 with Webpack, therefore we have a minified bundles that work nearly every platform without hassle
• Apart from netflux, we support message responses and request timeouts
• Easy configuring
• Promise based API

Installation

Using npm

npm install line-mesh --save

Usage

Simple Responder

const adapter = new LineMesh('line-mesh-req-res');

adapter.on('hello', request => {
  console.log(`Event received from ${request.sender}`, request.payload);
  request.resolve({yeppa: 'xxx'});
});

adapter.connect();

Simple Requester

const adapter = new LineMesh('line-mesh-req-res');

adapter.on(LineMesh.Event.MEMBER_JOINED, ({id}) => {
  console.log(`New member with id=${id} joined network`);

  adapter
    .sendTo(id, 'hello', {foo: 'bar'})
    .then(response => {
      console.log('Got response', response);
    });
});

adapter.connect();

Documentation

Extended documentation can be found here.

License

line-mesh by mertdogar is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.