websocket-stream

npm install websocket-stream

use HTML5 websockets the node way -- with streams

in the browser

you can use browserify to package this module for browser use. there is a also pre-made + minified version you can download and use right away called websocket-stream-min.js

var websocket = require('websocket-stream')
var ws = websocket('ws://realtimecats.com')
ws.pipe(somewhereAwesome)

ws is a stream and speaks stream events: data, error and end. that means you can pipe output to anything that accepts streams. you can also pipe data into streams (such as a webcam feed or audio data)

on the server

using the ws module you can make a websocket server and use this module to get websocket streams on the server:

var WebSocketServer = require('ws').Server
var websocket = require('websocket-stream')
var wss = new WebSocketServer({server: someHTTPServer})
wss.on('connection', function(ws) {
  var stream = websocket(ws)
  fs.createReadStream('bigdata.json').pipe(stream)
})

extras

you can pass in a custom protocol to the constructor as the second argument

require('websocket-stream').WebsocketStream is the raw constructor

BSD LICENSE