pusher.bind() not defined/supported

[snaptopixel]

Thank you for building this lib, I'm trying to use it but pusher.bind does not seem to be supported.

https://pusher.com/docs/channels/using_channels/events#binding-on-the-client

[nikolalsvk]

Hey, @snaptopixel, thanks for opening this issue! Supporting pusher.bind is something we are interested in supporting.

Could you help us and explain how would you use such a feature? This will give an idea of how to create support for it, as well as prove some examples of how to use it.

[snaptopixel]

Sure, thanks @nikolalsvk, I think the example shown on the Pusher docs is a decent case, multiple channels with the same event-name can be bound once.

In our frontend, we initialize pages as web-components. Rather than require Pusher to be configured in each component, we are passing a pre-configured Pusher instance to them.

Ideally we could also pre-subscribe to channels so that our page component(s) only need to be aware of the event name.

In that case you can have something like:

componentDidLoad() {
  this.pusher.bind('some-event-here')
}

Rather than

componentDidLoad() {
  const ch = this.pusher.subscribe('some-channel')
  ch.bind('some-event-here')
}

[nikolalsvk]

Hey, @snaptopixel, I made some progress and added support for pusher.bind. Can you take a look at the test I wrote and see if this is something you would use?

Also, if you have any more suggestions or input, I'd really appreciate it.

[snaptopixel]

LGTM thanks much @nikolalsvk

[nikolalsvk]

Hey, @snaptopixel, I just released 0.3.2 so you can play with it if you want. Thanks for the idea :)