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Postis is a light wrapper around the PostMessage API
$ npm install --save postis
Parent HTML which contains an iframe:
var postis = require("postis");
var targetWindow = document.querySelectorAll("iframe")[0].contentWindow;
var channel = postis({
window: targetWindow,
scope: "scope-for-message-changing-to-avoid-overlapping"
});
channel.ready(function() {
channel.listen("remoteMessageFromChild", function(remoteMessage) {
console.log("remoteMessageFromChild:", remoteMessage);
});
channel.send({
method: "remoteMessageFromParent",
params: { awesome: "messsage",
from: "Parent window"}
});
});
In embedded child iframe:
var postis = require("postis");
var targetWindow = window.parent;
var channel = postis({
window: targetWindow,
scope: "scope-for-message-changing-to-avoid-overlapping"
});
channel.ready(function() {
channel.listen("remoteMessageFromParent", function(remoteMessage) {
console.log("remoteMessageFromParent:", remoteMessage);
});
channel.send({
method: "remoteMessageFromChild",
params: { awesome: "messsage",
from: "child iframe"}
});
});
New releases are prepared in master after merging the PRs. Please include a meaningful changelog entry in PR.
Write a new CHANGELOG.md entry before running built-in npm version bump and add the change to next commit.
npm version <major | minor | patch>
git push --tags
npm version should include added changelog entry in the commit. Remember to push changes.
[2.2.0] - 2016-02-01
FAQs
Lightweight wrapper around the PostMessage API
The npm package postis receives a total of 1,045 weekly downloads. As such, postis popularity was classified as popular.
We found that postis demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 4 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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