Observer.js is a wrapper that allows you to control multiple Minecraft Servers using Socket.io or JavaScript. It's written in TypeScript and based on the best node.js wrapper for Minecraft Servers: scriptserver by Garrett Cox.

Some features are:

• Starts and stops multiple Minecrafts servers.
• Get specific server information such as Online Players and Server Status.
• Send commands to the servers.
• Listen to events such as status changes, user login and logout, and get extra data with each event.
• Connect multiple client apps using Socket.io and simple api key authentication.
• Listen to custom events defined using RegEx

Note that this is a WIP and it was built for my own use. I will try to keep this updated in the future.

Get started

The first thing to do is install Observer.js. It's not in NPM yet, but if it was, you could install it globally like this:

npm i -g observermc

Now just start the server using the command:

$ observermc --config FULL_PATH_TO_THE_CONFIG_FILE

IMPORTANT: If the file doesn't exist, ObserverMC will try to create an empty config file on the path you provided. Once the file is generated, the api key used to connect to the server will show up in the console and also in the config file where you can change it.

Configuration

To configure Observer just open the generated config.json. Sample config:

{
  "servers": [
    {
      "name": "test-server",
      "type": "paper",
      "path": "PATH_TO_THE_SERVER_FOLDER",
      "jar": "paper.jar",
      "args": ["-Xmx2G"],
      "autostop": 5000,
      "rcon": {
        "host": "localhost",
        "port": 25575,
        "password": "test123"
      },
      "events": {
        "user-left": "/\\[(?<time>(?:[01]\\d|2[0123]):(?:[012345]\\d):(?:[012345]\\d)) INFO\\]: (?<user>\\w+) left the game */g"
      }
    }
  ],
  "apiKey": "AUTO_GENERATED_API_KEY",
  "port": 3000
}

From top to bottom the options are:

• servers: An array of specific servers configuration
  • name: Unique name for the server
  • type: Type of the server (currently only paper supported)
  • path: Path to the server folder
  • jar: Name of the jar file
  • args: Extra arguments for java
  • autostop: (Optional) Milliseconds before the server closes if empty.
  • rcon: RCON configuration
    • host: RCON host
    • port: RCON port
    • password: RCON password
  • events: (Optional) Custom events.
• apiKey: Secret key for client authentication
• port: API Server port

Using a Socket.io Client

TODO

Using the JavaScript API

import {ObserverWrapper} from 'observer';

const wrapper = new ObserverWrapper(options);

TODO

License

Observer is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license (If this is not ok please let me know, I don't know how to deal with open source licenses 😭)