libin1991 / vue-websocket

Simple websocket (socket.io) plugin for Vue.js

vue-websocket

A socket.io plugin for Vue.js.

This package does not support native websockets. At the time, we recommend using vue-native-websocket or implementing it yourself. For ongoing discussion on this, please visit #2.

Installation

You can either install this package with npm, or manually by downloading the primary plugin file.

npm

$ npm install -S vue-websocket

Manual

Download the production vue-websocket.js file. This link is a mirror of the same file found in the dist directory of this project.

Usage

Register the plugin. By default, it will connect to /:

import VueWebsocket from "vue-websocket";
Vue.use(VueWebsocket);

Or to connect to another address:

Vue.use(VueWebsocket, "ws://otherserver:8080");

You can also pass options:

Vue.use(VueWebsocket, "ws://otherserver:8080", {
	reconnection: false
});

To use it in your components:

<script>
	export default {

		methods: {
			add() {
		  		// Emit the server side
		  		this.$socket.emit("add", { a: 5, b: 3 });
			},

			get() {
		  		this.$socket.emit("get", { id: 12 }, (response) => {
					...
				});
			}
		},

		socket: {
			// Prefix for event names
			// prefix: "/counter/",

			// If you set `namespace`, it will create a new socket connection to the namespace instead of `/`
			// namespace: "/counter",

			events: {

				// Similar as this.$socket.on("changed", (msg) => { ... });
				// If you set `prefix` to `/counter/`, the event name will be `/counter/changed`
				//
				changed(msg) {
					console.log("Something changed: " + msg);
				}

				/* common socket.io events
				connect() {
					console.log("Websocket connected to " + this.$socket.nsp);
				},

				disconnect() {
					console.log("Websocket disconnected from " + this.$socket.nsp);
				},

				error(err) {
					console.error("Websocket error!", err);
				}
				*/

			}
		}
	};

</script>

Develop

Building

This command will build a distributable version in the dist directory:

$ npm run build

Testing

This package uses karma for testing. You can run the tests like so:

$ npm test

Contribution

Please send pull requests improving the usage and fixing bugs, improving documentation and providing better examples, or providing some testing, because these things are important.

License

vue-websocket is available under the MIT license.

Contact

Copyright © 2018 Icebob