node-red-contrib-socketio

Implementation for Node-RED of the popular Socket.IO.

Installation

To install node-red-contrib-socketio use this command

npm i node-red-contrib-socketio

Composition

The Socket.IO implementation is made with

• 1 configuration Node that holds the server definitions and the user can decide to bind the SocketIO server on the Node-RED port or bind it to another port
• 1 input node where the user adds all the topics in which they are interested
• 1 output node that sends the data received into msg.payload
• 1 node to join a Socket IO room
• 1 node to leave a Socket IO room

Usage

To see an example usage go to Example Chat App

License

MIT

Thanks

Thank to:

• @nexflo for translating the comments in English and for pre-sending control data
• @bimalyn-IBM for implementig rooms
• @essuraj for implementig rooms listing node
• @cazellap for pushong adding compatibility to socketIO 3.0