websocket-as-promised

websocket-as-promised

Promise-based W3C WebSocket wrapper

Installation

npm install websocket-as-promised --save

Usage in browser

const WebSocketAsPromised = require('websocket-as-promised');

const wsp = new WebSocketAsPromised();
wsp.open('ws://echo.websocket.org')
  .then(() => wsp.send({foo: 'bar'}))
  .then(response => console.log(response.id))
  .then(() => wsp.close())
  .catch(e => console.error(e));

Usage in Node.js

As there is no built-in WebSocket client in Node.js, you should use a third-party module. The most popular W3C compatible solution is websocket:

const W3CWebSocket = require('websocket').w3cwebsocket;
const WebSocketAsPromised = require('websocket-as-promised');

const wsp = new WebSocketAsPromised({WebSocket: W3CWebSocket});
wsp.open('ws://echo.websocket.org')
  .then(...)

API

new WebSocketAsPromised(options)

  /**
   * Constructor
   *
   * @param {Object} [options]
   * @param {String} [options.idProp="id"] id property name attached to each message
   * @param {Object} [options.WebSocket=WebSocket] custom WebSocket constructor
   */

.open(url)

  /**
   * Open WebSocket connection
   *
   * @param {String} url
   * @returns {Promise}
   */

.send(data)

  /**
   * Send data and wait for response containing `id` property
   *
   * @param {Object} data
   * @returns {Promise}
   */

.close()

  /**
   * Close WebSocket connection
   *
   * @returns {Promise}
   */

.ws

  /**
   * Returns raw WebSocket instance
   *
   * @returns {WebSocket}
   */

License

MIT @ Vitaliy Potapov