multicast-dns-service-types
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Package description
The multicast-dns-service-types npm package provides a list of well-known DNS service types for use with multicast DNS (mDNS). It helps in identifying and categorizing various types of services that can be advertised and discovered over a local network using mDNS.
Service Type Lookup
This feature allows you to look up details about a specific service type by its name. The code sample demonstrates how to retrieve information about the 'http' service type, including its protocol and description.
const serviceTypes = require('multicast-dns-service-types');
// Lookup a service type by name
const serviceType = serviceTypes['http'];
console.log(serviceType); // Output: { name: 'http', protocol: 'tcp', description: 'Web Site' }List All Service Types
This feature allows you to list all available service types along with their details. The code sample iterates over all service types and prints their names and corresponding details.
const serviceTypes = require('multicast-dns-service-types');
// List all service types
for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(serviceTypes)) {
console.log(`${key}: ${JSON.stringify(value)}`);
}The bonjour package provides a way to advertise and browse services on the local network using mDNS. It offers more comprehensive functionality for service discovery and advertisement compared to multicast-dns-service-types, which focuses on providing a list of service types.
The mdns package allows for service discovery and advertisement using multicast DNS. It provides a more complete implementation of mDNS, including the ability to create and browse services, whereas multicast-dns-service-types is primarily a reference for service types.
The multicast-dns package is a low-level implementation of multicast DNS in JavaScript. It provides the core functionality for sending and receiving mDNS queries and responses, while multicast-dns-service-types offers a catalog of service types that can be used with such implementations.
Readme
Parse and stringify mdns service types
npm install multicast-dns-service-types
var types = require('multicast-dns-service-types')
console.log(types.stringify({name: 'http', protocol: 'tcp', subtypes: ['sub1', 'sub2']})) // _http._tcp._sub1._sub2
console.log(types.parse('_http._tcp._sub1._sub2')) // {name: 'http', protocol: 'tcp', subtypes: ['sub1', 'sub2']}
The following shorthands also exist
types.stringify(name, protocol, subtypes)
types.tcp(name, subtypes) // set protocol to tcp
types.udp(name, subtypes) // set protocol to udp
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Parse and stringify mdns service types
The npm package multicast-dns-service-types receives a total of 2,580,833 weekly downloads. As such, multicast-dns-service-types popularity was classified as popular.
We found that multicast-dns-service-types 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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