tubing

0.1.2 • Public • Published

tubing

Tubing in a modular socket library that uses the same client/server code regardless of transport.

High Level Idea

There are two main concepts which are goals of this project.

First, to decouple the creation of a socket from the operation of the socket itself. This is achieved through the acceptor-connector pattern (though I call them listeners and connectors).

Second, to allow for modular "protocols" to be easily built on top of the connections created by tubing. This would be things like RPCs, pub/sub, or any custom application protocol you might need. Protocols can also add middleware to achieve things like encryption or authentication.

Example

The nice thing about tubing is that you write your client and server the same way, regardless of the underlying transport. The only change is usually the line of code that calls connect or listen.

Server
import tubing from 'tubing';
import listener from 'tubing-websocket/listener';
import { rpcProtocol } from 'tubing-protocols';
 
const rpcHandlers = {
  echo(value) {
    return value;
  },
  delay(millis, value) {
    return new Promise((resolve) => {
      setTimeout(() => resolve(value), millis);
    });
  }
}
 
// create the tubing app
const app = tubing();
 
// add an rpc protocol
app.use('rpc', rpcProtocol(rpcHandlers));
 
// create a websocket server and listen on port 3000
listener(app).listen(3000);
Client
import tubing from 'tubing';
import connector from 'tubing-websocket/connector';
import { rpcProtocol } from 'tubing-protocols';
 
// create the tubing app
const app = tubing();
 
// add an rpc protocol
app.use('rpc', rpcProtocol(rpcHandlers));
 
// when a new socket is created, make some rpc calls
app.on('socket', async (socket) => {
  const rpc = socket.get('rpc');
 
  console.log(await rpc.call('echo', 'hello!'));
  console.log(await rpc.call('delay', 2000, 'I waited for you'));
});
 
// connect to a websocket server on localhost port 3000
connector(app).connect('ws://localhost:3000');

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npm i tubing

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0.1.2

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