robust-websocket
is a wrapper around the standard WebSocket class that implements the same interface, but can reconnect when disconnected or the user's computer comes back online.
It is error-code aware and will not reconnect on 1008 (HTTP 400 equivalent) and 1011 (HTTP 500 equivalent) by default. This behavior is fully configurable via the shouldConnect
(see Usage).
Compared to reconnecting-websocket
- Tests! You know it works like stated and regressions will be caught.
- Is aware of online and offline, and won't burn up the users battery and CPU reconnected when offline, and will reconnect when it is online again.
- Natively aware of error codes
- Any kind of reconnect strategy is possible via functional composition
Use it as you would a normal websocket:
var ws = new RobustWebSocket('ws://echo.websocket.org/')
ws.addEventListener('open', function(event) {
ws.send('Hello!')
})
ws.addEventListener('message', function(event) {
console.log('we got: ' + event.data)
})
But with an optional set of options you can specify as a 3rd parameter
var ws = new RobustWebSocket('ws://echo.websocket.org/', null {
// The number of milliseconds to wait before a connection is considered to have timed out. Defaults to 4 seconds.
timeout: 4000,
// A function that given a CloseEvent or an online event (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Online_and_offline_events) and the `RobustWebSocket`,
// will return the number of milliseconds to wait to reconnect, or a non-Number to not reconnect.
// see below for more examples; below is the default functionality.
shouldReconnect: function(event, ws) {
if (event.code === 1008 || event.code === 1011) return
return [0, 3000, 10000][ws.attempts]
},
// A boolean indicating whether or not to open the connection automatically. Defaults to true, matching native [WebSocket] behavior.
// You can open the websocket by calling `open()` when you are ready. You can close and re-open the RobustWebSocket instance as much as you wish.
automaticOpen: true
})
Reconnect with an exponetial backoff on all errors
function shouldReconnect(event, ws) {
return Math.pow(1.5, ws.attempts) * 500
}
Reconnect immediately but only 20 times per RobustWebSocket instance
function shouldReconnect(event, ws) {
return ws.reconnects <= 20 && 0
}
Reconnect only on some whitelisted codes, and only 3 attempts, except on online events, then connect immediately
function shouldReconnect(event, ws) {
if (event.type === 'online') return 0
return [1006,1011,1012].indexOf(event.code) && [1000,5000,10000][ws.attempt]
}
See documentation for CloseEvent and online event, the two types of events that shouldReconnect
will receive.
You may need these polyfills to support older browsers
- Object.assign - npm package or 24-line MDN snippet
- CustomEvent - npm package or 15-line MDN snippet