jQuery Simple WebSocket
Send and receive data through a fluent interface, reconnect automatically.
Example
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.2.0.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.simple.websocket.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    var webSocket = $.simpleWebSocket({ url: 'ws://127.0.0.1:3000/' });
    // reconnected listening
    webSocket.listen(function(message) {
        console.log(message.text);
    });
    webSocket.send({ 'text': 'hello' }).done(function() {
        // message send
    }).fail(function(e) {
        // error sending
    });
</script>
 
fluent:
var webSocket = $.simpleWebSocket({ url: 'ws://127.0.0.1:3000/' })
.listen(function(message) { console.log('listener1: '+message.text); })
.listen(function(message) { console.log('listener2: '+message.text); })
.listen(function(message) { console.log('listener3: '+message.text); })
.send({'text': 'hello'});
 
Usage
var socket = $.simpleWebSocket(
    {
        url: 'ws://127.0.0.1:3000/',
        protocols: 'your_protocol', // optional
        timeout: 20000, // optional, default timeout between connection attempts
        attempts: 60, // optional, default attempts until closing connection
        dataType: 'json', // optional (xml, json, text), default json
        onOpen: function(event) {}, // optional event listener
        onClose: function(event) {}, // optional event listener
        onError: function(event) {}, // optional event listener
    }
);
socket.connect();
socket.isConnected(); // or: socket.isConnected(function(connected) {});
socket.send({'foo': 'bar'});
socket.listen(function(data) {});
socket.remove(listenerCallback);
socket.removeAll();
socket.close();
 
Web Chat Example
- start nodejs websocket server:
 
$ node src/server.js
 
- open example/example.html
 
History
- jQuery Simple Web Socket has been forked from https://github.com/dchelimsky/jquery-websocket
 - which originates from http://code.google.com/p/jquery-websocket/