litesocket

Stop using Socket.io for one-way communication!

The W3C has created the Server-Sent Event specification for doing "push notifications" in a very simple & http compatable way. (no need to UPGRADE the connection)

Don't believe it is simple? Open litesocket.js and see for yourself!

var litesocket = require("litesocket");
var http = require('http');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
	litesocket(req, res, function(){
		res.send("Hello World");
		//DO NOT CALL res.end()!
	})
})
.listen(3000);

connect/express middleware

A middleware function is returned when your call require("litesocket"). The middleware sets up the plumbing needed to send events to Node's response streams.

The default res.send function is overridden for sending SSE data.

res.send(data [,options])

data is any string you want to send. options is an (optional) object you can provide with id, event, comment, or retry message options.

var litesocket = require("litesocket");
var express = require('express');
var app = express();

app.get('/', litesocket, function(req, res){
	res.send("Hello World", {
		event: "shout"
	});
});

app.listen(3000);

handler(url, callback)

Gives you some syntatic sugar if you want it.

var express = require('express');
var app = express();
app.sse = require("litesocket").handler;

app.sse('/', function(req, res){
	res.send("Hello World");
});

app.listen(3000);

welcome

On establishing a connection, a welcome comment is sent. default: "You are connected"

headers(res)

Allows you to override/customize the response headers that are sent.

Bare stream writers

They do what you would expect. See the Server-Sent Event spec for details

sendId(stream, id)

sendEvent(stream, name)

sendRetry(stream, ms)

sendComment(stream, comment)

sendData(stream, data)

send(stream, data, options)

A helper function that allows you to combine several actions.

license

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 William Kapke

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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