Ionic Discover

Simple UDP based protocol for service discovery implemented in pure JS. It is not mDNS or bonjour, but it tries to accomplish the same thing.

Spec

It uses a JSON based textual format:

const message = {
  t: now,
  id: 'unique',
  name: this.name,
  host: os.hostname(),
  ip: iface.address,
  port: number1,
  commPort: number2
};

return 'ION_DP' + JSON.stringify(message);

key	description
t	unix timestamp in second
id	unique id for this session
name	name of the announced service
host	hostname of the machine announcing the service
ip	ipv4 address
port	tcp port of the announced service
commPort	optional websocket port of the communication server

Installation

npm install @ionic/discover

Usage

import { Publisher } from '@ionic/discover';

const namespace = 'your-service';
const serviceName = 'Ionic thing!';
const tcpPort = 8100;
const service = new Publisher(namespace, serviceName, tcpPort);

await service.start();