Shared schemas between client and server

[Abul22]

I'm trying to have a single file called shared.js to include on the server and client rather than dupe for both. But Can't seem to do this as I just get 'schemapack is undefined' when running with node...Even though it's declared and defined above it. Help would be appreciated... Thank you!

Eg.

shared.js

---

const textMsg = schemapack.build({
__message: 'uint8',
msg: 'string'
});

try { module.exports = {textMsg}; } catch (err) {
//We are not running as node.js module
}

---

Server:

---

const schemapack = require('schemapack');
require('./public/shared');

---

Client:

---

<script src='./schemapack.min.js'></script> <script src='./shared.js'> </script>

---

[endel]

I'm working on a similar binary serializer, which allows you to perform some "reflection": https://github.com/colyseus/schema

You define the type, and then you can encode/decode the type itself.

import { Schema, type, Reflection } from "@colyseus/schema";

class MyState extends Schema {
  @type("string")
  name: string;
}

var serverState = new MyState();

// byte array representing all related types to MyState, 
// you can send this over from the server to the client
var reflected = Reflection.encode(serverState);

// instantiate `MyState` in the client based on the reflected bytes
var clientState = Reflection.decode(reflected);

[anooshcnayak]

@endel Is https://github.com/colyseus/schema faster than schemapack - are there any benchmarks?