Apostrophe Websockets

Currently for OLD versions of Apostrophe

This module was for Apostrophe 0.5.x. Currently there is no port for Apostrophe 2.x. Contributions welcome.

How to use

apostrophe-websockets adds socket.io to your Apostrophe project. To use it, add it to your package.json file and then add the following to your Apostrophe app.js module configuration:

  ...
  modules: {
    'apostrophe-websockets': {
      adminOnly: false
    }
  }
  ...

Currently the only option you can pass is adminOnly, which when true establishes a browser-side socket client only to logged in users. It is false by default.

This will add socket.io to your server and load socket.io.js on the frontend. To take advantage of socket connections you'll need to subclass the websockets module on the server.

Subclassing on the Server

Create a lib/modules/apostrophe-websockets folder and add an index.js file. Here's the code to get started:

// /lib/modules/apostrophe-websockets/index.js
module.exports = websockets;

function websockets(options, callback) {
  return new websockets.Construct(options, callback);
}

websockets.Construct = function(options, callback) {
  var self = this;

  module.exports.Super.call(this, options, null);

  self.initializeSockets = function(io) {
    io.on('connection', function(socket) {
      // your socket code here
    });
  };

  // Must wait at least until next tick to invoke callback!
  if (callback) {
    process.nextTick(function() { return callback(null); });
  }

};

If you plan to subclass the websockets module more than once, use the superFunction pattern to add more code to the existing initializeSockets function:

var superInitializeSockets = self.initializeSockets;
self.initializeSockets = function(io) {
  superInitializeSockets(io);
  // your socket code here
}

Sockets in the Browser

Once the apostrophe-sockets module is added to your project you will have apos.socket available on the frontend, which is your socket client. Use this as you would use the socket property normally.

// site.js

apos.socket.emit('hey', { message: 'I have websockets now.' });

apos.socket.on('hello', function(data) {
  console.log(data);
});