racer-highway

Transport plugin for Racer. It uses pure websockets and fallbacks to browserchannel in the case of old browsers and proxy errors. If you only need to use websockets try racer-ws.

Note

Since version 7.0.0 racer-highway supports only racer >= 0.8

Usage

In the server part of your app:

var highway = require('racer-highway'); 

// ...
// var server = http.createServer
// ...

// ...
// var store  = racer.createStore 
// or
// var store  = derby.createStore
// ...

var handlers = highway(store);

expressApp = express();

// ...

expressApp.use(cookieParser());
expressApp.use(session());

// ...

expressApp.use(handlers.middleware);


server.on('upgrade', handlers.upgrade);

Connect session support in hooks:

var serverOptions = {
  session: session()
}
var handlers = racerHighWay(store, serverOptions);

Browserify

Racer Highway will bundle the client browser script using Browserify in the call to store.bundle(...), as illustrated in the racer-examples. However, if you want to do this ahead of time, you can add this to your gulp browserify task using something like:

var browserify = require('browserify');
var racerClientBundle = require('racer-highway/lib/bundle');

// ...

bundler = browserify(opts);
// this adds the racer-highway/lib/browser.js to our bundle
(racerClientBundle())(bundler);

WebSocket Info

MIT License

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.