Socketmon

Gotta Watch 'em All!

A WebSocket monitoring tool for inspecting and sending WebSocket messages to connected clients.

Installation and usage

First, install the package globally.

npm i -g socketmon

Then run it by executing:

socketmon

The WebSocket server will be available on ws://localhost:6868

The client for monitoring and sending messages is located at http://localhost:6767

Socketmon in action

What does it do?

Socketmon creates a debug / temporary server that listens to and sends WebSocket messages to connected clients.

When a WebSocket connection is established from any application, the server will act as a sort of man in the middle which you can inspect from the build-in client.

It makes inspecting and sending WebSocket messages easy without having to build an actual WebSocket server.

Future plans

One of the features that I really want to add is the ability to proxy an existing WebSocket server.

Feel free to add your thoughts in the issue tracker.

Credits

Socketmon is a project by Gaya Kessler