Buttplug Typescript/JS Client Implementation

A implementation of the Buttplug Client in Typescript/Javascript, implementing the Version 3 Buttplug Spec. It is expected to run from a browser against either Intiface Central (GUI), Initface Engine (CLI), or the Buttplug WASM Server.

Compilation information

buttplug-js builds to 3 different types of library:

• CommonJS for node
• UMD and ES Modules for the web

For node, simply include the package as you would any other package.

For inclusion in web projects, the UMD project can be found at dist/web/buttplug.js (Note that the namespace is buttplug, so you'll access types like buttplug.ButtplugClient, etc...), and the es6 module at dist/web/buttplug.mjs.

Using buttplug-js with Node

buttplug-js works with both pure web builds, as well as node applications. To use buttplug-js with node, use the ButtplugNodeWebsocketClientConnector class instead of the ButtplugBrowserWebsocketClientConnector class. That should be the only change needed, all of the API stays the same. See the Documentation section for more info.

(The WASM Server does not work with pure node applications. It requires a browser environment in order to run. See the WASM project README for more info.)

Documentation and Examples

Documentation on how to use Buttplug in general, as well as examples for buttplug-js, can be found in the Buttplug Developer Guide.

API documentation for buttplug-js can be found at https://buttplugio.github.io/buttplug-js.

If you would like to see a demo of using Buttplug in a pure web context, check out the following glitch project, which shows how to pull the Buttplug libraries from a CDN and use them in a pure HTML/JS context without node:

https://glitch.com/edit/#!/how-to-buttplug

Contributing

If you have issues or feature requests, please feel free to file an issue on this repo.

We are not looking for code contributions or pull requests at this time, and will not accept pull requests that do not have a matching issue where the matter was previously discussed. Pull requests should only be submitted after talking to qdot via issues on this repo (or on discourse or discord if you would like to stay anonymous and out of recorded info on the repo) before submitting PRs. Random PRs without matching issues and discussion are likely to be closed without merging. and receiving approval to develop code based on an issue. Any random or non-issue pull requests will most likely be closed without merging.

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License

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