Autobahn|JS is a subproject of the Autobahn project and provides an open-source implementation of the Web Application Messaging Protocol V2 in JavaScript
It is licensed under the MIT licensed.
WAMP provides asynchronous Remote Procedure Calls and Publish & Subscribe for applications in one protocol running over WebSocket (and fallback transports for old browsers).
Autobahn|JS runs on both Web browsers and Node.js.
WAMP enables application architectures with application code distributed freely across processes and devices according to functional aspects. Since WAMP implementations exist for multiple languages, WAMP applications can be polyglott. Application components can be implemented in a language and run on a device which best fit the particular use case.
The following example implements all four roles that Autobahn|JS offers
- Publisher
- Subscriber
- Caller (calls a remote procedure)
- Callee (offers a remote procedure)
The code runs unaltered in the browser or Node.js!
var autobahn = require('autobahn');
var connection = new autobahn.Connection({url: 'ws://127.0.0.1:9000/', realm: 'realm1'});
connection.onopen = function (session) {
// 1) subscribe to a topic
function onevent(args) {
console.log("Event:", args[0]);
}
session.subscribe('com.myapp.hello', onevent);
// 2) publish an event
session.publish('com.myapp.hello', ['Hello, world!']);
// 3) register a procedure for remoting
function add2(args) {
return args[0] + args[1];
}
session.register('com.myapp.add2', add2);
// 4) call a remote procedure
session.call('com.myapp.add2', [2, 3]).then(
function (res) {
console.log("Result:", res);
}
);
};
connection.open();For more information, take a look at the project documentation. This provides:
- a quick 'Getting Started'
- tutorials on RPC and PubSub
- a list of all examples in this repo
- a full API reference
Get in touch on IRC #autobahn on chat.freenode.net or the mailing list.
Autobahn|JS includes code from the following open-source projects
Special thanks to the Coders with an Unhealthy Javascript Obsession for creating when.js - A lightweight Promise and when() implementation, plus other async goodies.