King of the Hill

Enables a loopback server in a specific port (49152 by default) to send and receive data between standalone processes. As in the King of the Hill game, all processes can opt to be the king –thus acting as the server. If the king's socket dies, it will try to takeover the hill again (but, hey, others can try it too).

Installation

npm install koth

Usage

let options = {};
require('koth').play(options);

Methods

A game is created using require('koth').play(options). A game has these methods:

• on(eventName, eventHandler): used to register listeners
• start(): used to start the game (if it's stopped or autoStart is set to false)
• stop(): stops the game if already started
• broadcast(data): sends data

Options

Server Events

Client Events

Basic example

let koth = require('..');
let options = {
   port: 49152,
   maxRetries: 2
}
let game = koth.play();
let hear = function(d) {
  var data = d.toString();
  console.log('Received data: ', data);
}
 
let shout = function() {
  let ran = Math.random().toString();
  game.broadcast(ran);
  console.log('Sent data: ', ran);
}
 
// Be heard, shout every second!
game.on('data', hear);
setInterval(shout, 1000);

Other Examples

Go check /examples for more!

License

The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2016 Manuel de la Higuera

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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