Can I use in express application?

[NickNaso]

Is it possible to use sockette with express application? Can you provide some little example about that?
Thanks

[lukeed]

Sure, but you still need a socket server somewhere. I would recommend ws or uws, which can both be integrated into your Express (or any) server.

I'm working on a Polka demo that use Sockette and uWebSockets. I'll link it here once it's done.

[NickNaso]

Thanks I will be very useful! 👍

[roblav96]

@lukeed please share link :D

Also it would be nice to expose the WebSocket instance, maybe via a getter, to utilize the extra uws client features.

[lukeed]

No link yet, sorry~! Forcing myself to build a product in my free time right now. Then I can continue OSS work 😆

You can already get access to the WebSocket instance. All the event listeners have a an event.target, as per the Event object spec. So, for example, you can do this:

let ws;
let socket = new Sockette('ws://...', {
  onopen(ev) {
    ws = ev.target; // save the WebSocket
    // ...
  }
});

// later on

ws.binaryType = 'arraybuffer';

[jellydn]

Just FYI, I have re-implemented https://github.com/jellydn/ws-sockette for NodeJs.