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The Curveball framework is a TypeScript framework for node.js with support for modern HTTP features.
https://curveballjs.org/
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WebsocketServer access? #199

Closed SinanAkkoyun closed 2 years ago

SinanAkkoyun commented 2 years ago

Hi! I wanted to broadcast on the wss and asked myself how I could access the wss Thanks :)

evert commented 2 years ago

Hi!

This is a good question. The goal of Websocket support in curveball will eventually probably be to just provide access to a single direct websocket to a client.

The ws library has native support for broadcasting, but one of the thing this requires is keeping track of all open websockets, which is something Curveball will probably never do, just like it won't keep track of which HTTP requests are currently being served.

Instead, we just want to encourage people from moving that functionality to their own code. For example, you can create an EventEmitter on a server, and each new websocket connection can listen to a message event and sometimes emit it.

Or, you want to create a Redis pubsub entry, and have many Node.js instance subscribe to it.

Long story short, despite that the ws has this feature, @curveball/core will probably never expose this; but we might create a separate plugin that does have this feature (but it would for sure have multi-server support).

SinanAkkoyun commented 2 years ago

I see, thank you very much! Yes, I implemented socket tracking etc on my own, I was just exactly wondering about what you described.