A super-lightweight IPC (Inter-Process Communication) protocol over TCP socket.
npm install procbridgeProcBridge is a super-lightweight IPC (Inter-Process Communication) protocol over TCP socket or Unix domain socket. It enables you to send and recieve JSON between processes easily. ProcBridge is much like a simplified version of HTTP protocol, but only transfer JSON values.
Please note that this repo is the Node.js implementation of ProcBridge protocol. You can find detailed introduction of ProcBridge protocol in the main repository: gongzhang/procbridge.
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npm i procbridge
Server Side:
`javascript
const { Server } = require('procbridge')
const server = new Server('0.0.0.0', 8000, (method, args) => {
// define remote methods:
switch (method) {
case 'echo':
return args
case 'sum':
return args.reduce((sum, next) => { return sum + next })
case 'err':
throw new Error('an server error')
}
})
server.start()
`
Client Side:
`javascript
const { Client } = require('procbridge')
const client = new Client('127.0.0.1', 8000)
// call remote methods:
await client.request('echo', 123) // 123
await client.request('echo', ['a', 'b', 'c']) // ['a', 'b', 'c']
await client.request('sum', [1, 2, 3, 4]) // 10
``