socketio-wildcard

socketio-wildcard
=================



Socket.io with a wildcard event.

Works with Socket.io v1.x - v2.x.

Tested with node.js v4.x, v5.x, v6.x, v7.x.

Installation
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npm install --save socketio-wildcard

Usage
-----

$3

``js
var io = require('socket.io')();
var middleware = require('socketio-wildcard')();

io.use(middleware);

io.on('connection', function(socket) {
socket.on('*', function(packet){
// client.emit('foo', 'bar', 'baz')
packet.data === ['foo', 'bar', 'baz']
});
});

io.listen(8000);
`

$3

`js
var io = require('socket.io-client');
var socket = io('http://localhost');
// piggyback using the event-emitter bundled with socket.io client
var patch = require('socketio-wildcard')(io.Manager);
patch(socket);

socket.on('', function(){ / … */ })
``

Changelog
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$3

- no breaking change
- update test dependencies for socket.io v2

$3

- allow custom event emitter
- support socket.io client

$3

- wildcard listener for all events get called first (@Michael77)
- removed coffee-script dependency

Licence
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MIT