multicast-eventemitter
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Under heavy development - DO NOT USE IN PRODUCTION
This package provides a cluster-wide event emitter. Message sent from any process on any machine on a LAN can be subscibed to by any other process on any other machine.
It works efficiently by hashing event names into 24 bits of address space and 15 bits of port number - thus a 1 in half-a-trillion chance of event name collision.
This currently uses plain multicast. This has the following drawbacks:
There are known bugs - see the FIXMEs and TODOs in the code.
FAQs
LAN wide eventemitter, using multicast.
The npm package multicast-eventemitter receives a total of 1 weekly downloads. As such, multicast-eventemitter popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that multicast-eventemitter 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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