websocket-stream

websocket-stream

npm install websocket-stream

use HTML5 websockets the node way -- with streams

in the browser

you can use browserify to package this module for browser use. there is a also pre-made + minified version you can download and use right away called websocket-stream-min.js

var websocket = require('websocket-stream')
var ws = websocket('ws://realtimecats.com')
ws.pipe(somewhereAwesome)

ws is a stream and speaks stream events: data, error and end. that means you can pipe output to anything that accepts streams. you can also pipe data into streams (such as a webcam feed or audio data)

on the server

using the ws module you can make a websocket server and use this module to get websocket streams on the server:

var WebSocketServer = require('ws').Server
var websocket = require('websocket-stream')
var wss = new WebSocketServer({server: someHTTPServer})
wss.on('connection', function(ws) {
  var stream = websocket(ws)
  fs.createReadStream('bigdata.json').pipe(stream)
})

extras

the metadata event has the full websocket event

you can pass in a custom protocol to the constructor as the second argument

require('websocket-stream').WebsocketStream is the raw constructor

BSD LICENSE

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ws

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socket.io

The 'socket.io' package is a real-time communication library that provides both WebSocket and fallback support for other transport protocols. It is designed for building real-time applications and offers features like rooms, namespaces, and broadcasting. While it is more feature-rich than websocket-stream, it is also more complex and may be overkill for simple WebSocket streaming use cases.

websocket

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