spread-the-word

A Bonjour / Zeroconf implementation in TypeScript.

Spread services across your local network and discover other services

Installation

$ npm i spread-the-word

Usage

import stw from "spread-the-word";

stw.on("up", (remoteService, response, referrer) => {
  console.log(`${remoteService.name} (type: ${remoteService.type}, port: ${remoteService.port}) is up (from ${referrer.address})`);
  if (remoteService.txt) {
    console.log("TXT found:", remoteService.txt);
  }
}).on("down", (remoteService, response, referrer) => {
  console.log(`${remoteService.name} (type: ${remoteService.type}, port: ${remoteService.port}) is down (from ${referrer.address})`);
});

stw.listen({ type: "jsremote" });

stw.spread({
  type: "jsremote",
  name: "awesome remote receiver",
  port: 4444,
  txt: {
    message: "Custom Data"
  }
});

Features

• easy service detection & advertisement on your local network
• TXT record support
  • used encoder / decoder
• subtypes support
• auto probing on spread
• no extra native dependencies
• typescript types included

Documentation

You can find the latest version of documentation hosted here.

Debug

$ DEBUG=SpreadTheWord:* npm start

License

MIT