Vue-Socket.io is a socket.io integration for Vuejs, easy to use, supporting Vuex and component level socket consumer managements.
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🚀 Installation
npm install vue-socket.io --save
Using Connection String
import Vue from 'vue'
import store from './store'
import App from './App.vue'
import VueSocketIO from 'vue-socket.io'
import SocketIO from "socket.io-client"
Vue.use(new VueSocketIO({
debug: true,
connection: 'http://metinseylan.com:1992',
vuex: {
store,
actionPrefix: 'SOCKET_',
mutationPrefix: 'SOCKET_'
},
options: { path: "/my-app/" } //Optional options
}))
new Vue({
router,
store,
render: h => h(App)
}).$mount('#app')
Using socket.io-client Instance
import Vue from 'vue'
import store from './store'
import App from './App.vue'
import VueSocketIO from 'vue-socket.io'
import SocketIO from "socket.io-client"
const options = { path: '/my-app/' }; //Options object to pass into SocketIO
Vue.use(new VueSocketIO({
debug: true,
connection: SocketIO('http://metinseylan.com:1992', options), //options object is Optional
vuex: {
store,
actionPrefix: "SOCKET_",
mutationPrefix: "SOCKET_"
}
})
);
new Vue({
router,
store,
render: h => h(App)
}).$mount('#app')
Parameters | Type's | Default | Required | Description |
---|---|---|---|---|
debug | Boolean | false |
Optional | Enable logging for debug |
connection | String/Socket.io-client | null |
Required | Websocket server url or socket.io-client instance |
vuex.store | Vuex | null |
Optional | Vuex store instance |
vuex.actionPrefix | String | null |
Optional | Prefix for emitting server side vuex actions |
vuex.mutationPrefix | String | null |
Optional | Prefix for emitting server side vuex mutations |
vuex.options.useConnectionNamespace | Boolean | false |
Optional | Use more than one connection namespace |
🌈 Component Level Usage
If you want to listen socket events from component side, you need to add `sockets` object in Vue component, and every function will start to listen events, depends on object key
new Vue({
sockets: {
connect: function () {
console.log('socket connected')
},
customEmit: function (data) {
console.log('this method was fired by the socket server. eg: io.emit("customEmit", data)')
}
},
methods: {
clickButton: function (data) {
// $socket is socket.io-client instance
this.$socket.emit('emit_method', data)
}
}
})
Dynamic Listeners
If you need consuming events dynamically in runtime, you can use `subscribe` and `unsubscribe` methods in Vue component
this.sockets.subscribe('EVENT_NAME', (data) => {
this.msg = data.message;
});
this.sockets.unsubscribe('EVENT_NAME');
🏆 Vuex Integration
When you set store parameter in installation, `Vue-Socket.io` will start sending events to Vuex store. If you set both prefix for vuex, you can use `actions` and `mutations` at the same time. But, best way to use is just `actions`
import Vue from 'vue'
import Vuex from 'vuex'
Vue.use(Vuex)
export default new Vuex.Store({
state: {},
mutations: {
"<MUTATION_PREFIX><EVENT_NAME>"() {
// do something
}
},
actions: {
"<ACTION_PREFIX><EVENT_NAME>"() {
// do something
}
}
})
🏆 Connection Namespace
When you need to handle more than one namespaced connection, you need to set the `useConnectionNamespace` property of the options object to true. What this does is telling the plugin that you are going to be using more than one namespaced connection and you want to put every connection in their own `$socket` key.
import Vue from 'vue'
import store from './store'
import App from './App.vue'
import VueSocketIO from 'vue-socket.io'
Vue.use(new VueSocketIO({
debug: true,
connection: 'http://metinseylan.com:1992/mynamespace',
vuex: {
store,
options: {
useConnectionNamespace: true
}
},
options: { path: "/my-app/" } //Optional options
}))
new Vue({
router,
store,
render: h => h(App)
}).$mount('#app')
Then use it like this:
Vue.$socket.mynamespace.emit('emit_method', data)