actioncable-rails v1.1.0

ActionCable Rails

Rails 5 brings a beautiful thing to rails developers, which is Action Cable. For a long time, rails developers handle websocket through socket.io, which requires a separate server running Node and tedious code handling connections between the node and rails.

Action Cable resolves this by seamlessly integrating WebSockets with your Rails application, which allows for real-time connection to be written in Ruby, while still being performant and scalable.

While the official implementation of actioncable.js This project offers several things which the official implementation of actioncable.js(https://github.com/rails/rails/tree/master/actioncable/app/javascript/action_cable] does not offer:

• Configurations for compiling the official implementation is provided, so that any developer can fork this repo and tweak the code, finally create their own version of actioncable.js.
• The official implementation and other implementations searching from npm have a common issue that integrating them with SSR(server side rendering) is hard, simply because the server bothers with 'window is not defined'. This project offers a quick and clean solution, which is by inserting one line of code into output section of webpack config as:

  output: {
    ...
    globalObject: "typeof self !== 'undefined' ? self : this",
    ...
  },

• Jwt authentication
• Quick updates of optimizations and bug fixes of the official one since this project stays standalone

Usage

yarn add actioncable-rails

License

actioncable-rails is released under the MIT license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/MIT