react-native-tcp-socket

react-native-tcp-socket

React Native TCP socket API for Android & iOS. It allows you to create TCP clients and servers sockets, simulating node's net API.

WARNING: this library has not been tested on iOS

Table of Contents

• Getting started
• Usage
• API
  • Client
  • Server
• Maintainers
• Acknowledgments
• License

Getting started

Install the library using either Yarn:

yarn add react-native-tcp-socket

or npm:

npm install --save react-native-tcp-socket

Using React Native >= 0.60

Linking the package manually is not required anymore with Autolinking.

• iOS Platform:

  $ cd ios && pod install && cd .. # CocoaPods on iOS needs this extra step

• Android Platform:

  Modify your android/build.gradle configuration to match minSdkVersion = 23:

  buildscript {
    ext {
      ...
      minSdkVersion = 23 
      ...
    }
  

  Modify your android/app/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml and add the following:

    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.CHANGE_NETWORK_STATE" />
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE" />
  

Using React Native < 0.60

You then need to link the native parts of the library for the platforms you are using. The easiest way to link the library is using the CLI tool by running this command from the root of your project:

$ react-native link react-native-tcp-socket

If you can't or don't want to use the CLI tool, you can also manually link the library using the instructions below (click on the arrow to show them):

Manually link the library on iOS

1. In XCode, in the project navigator, right click Libraries ➜ Add Files to [your project's name]
2. Go to node_modules ➜ react-native-tcp-socket and add TcpSocket.xcodeproj
3. In XCode, in the project navigator, select your project. Add libTcpSocket.a to your project's Build Phases ➜ Link Binary With Libraries
4. Run your project (Cmd+R)<

Manually link the library on Android

1. Open up android/app/src/main/java/[...]/MainApplication.java

• Add import com.reactlibrary.TcpSocketPackage; to the imports at the top of the file
• Add new TcpSocketPackage() to the list returned by the getPackages() method

1. Append the following lines to android/settings.gradle:

   include ':react-native-tcp-socket'
   project(':react-native-tcp-socket').projectDir = new File(rootProject.projectDir, 	'../node_modules/react-native-tcp-socket/android')
   

2. Insert the following lines inside the dependencies block in android/app/build.gradle:

     compile project(':react-native-tcp-socket')
   

Usage

Import the library:

import TcpSocket from 'react-native-tcp-socket';
// var net = require('react-native-tcp-socket');

Client

// Create socket
var client = TcpSocket.createConnection(options);

client.on('data', function(data) {
  console.log('message was received', data);
});

client.on('error', function(error) {
  console.log(error);
});

client.on('close', function(){
  console.log('Connection closed!');
});

// Write on the socket
client.write("Hello server!");

// Close socket
client.destroy();

Server

var server = TcpSocket.createServer(function(socket) {
  socket.on('data', (data) => {
    socket.write('Echo server', data);
  });

  socket.on('error', (error) => {
    console.log('An error ocurred with client socket ', error);
  });

  socket.on('close', (error) => {
    console.log('Closed connection with ', socket.address());
  });
}).listen(12345, '0.0.0.0');

server.on('error', (error) => {
  console.log('An error ocurred with the server', error);
});

server.on('close', () => {
  console.log('Server closed connection');
});

API

Client

• Methods:
  • createConnection(options[, callback])
  • write(data)
  • destroy()

createConnection()

createConnection(options[, callback]) creates a TCP connection using the given options.

options

Required. Available options for creating a socket. It is an object with the following properties:

Property	Type	Description
host	String	Required. A valid server IP address in IPv4 format or "localhost".
port	Number	Required. A valid server port.
[localAddress]	String	A valid local IP address to bind the socket. If not specified, the OS will decide.
[localPort]	Number	A valid local port to bind the socket. If not specified, the OS will decide.
[interface]	String	The interface to bind the socket. If not specified, it will use the current active connection. The current options are: "wifi"

Server

• Methods:
  • createServer(callback)
  • listen(port[, host])
  • close()

listen()

listen(port[, host]) creates a TCP server socket listening on the given port. If the host is not explicity selected, the socket will be bound to '0.0.0.0'.

Maintainers

Looking for maintainers!

• Rapsssito

Contributing

PR's welcome!

Acknowledgments

• iOS part originally forked from @aprock react-native-tcp
• react-native-udp

License

The library is released under the MIT license. For more information see LICENSE.