remote-events v1.1.4

RemoteEvents

connect two EventEmitters through a stream!

var RemoteEventEmitter = require('..')
var es = require('event-stream')
var net = require('net')

var server = net.createServer(function (con) {
  var ree = new RemoteEventEmitter()
  con.pipe(ree.getStream())

  ree.on('ping', function (time) {
    console.log('PING', time)
    ree.emit('pong', Date.now())
  })
}).listen(2468, function () {
 
  var con = net.connect(2468)
  var ree = new RemoteEventEmitter()
  con.pipe(ree.getStream()).pipe(con)

  var time = Date.now()
  ree.on('pong', function (_time) {
    console.log('PONG', _time, _time - time)
    ree.disconnect()
    server.close()
  })
  ree.emit('ping', time)
})

now, one may wish to subclass RemoteEventEmitter wrap net or http or shoe and provide a connect and createServer methods.

then you will have a very socket.io like interface (but without the silly bundled RPC, etc)

however, I recommend instead wrap this with browser-stream -- which will allow you to multiplex streams through RemoteEventEmitter

which will be useful for A) keeping nice Stream abstractions when you have a limited budget for connections (like in the browser) and B) seperating interprocess communication abstractions (such as dnode or crdt. This has been a problem with libraries using the socket.io api directly.