Replace express-ws with something newer?

[talentlessguy]

Hi,

sorry for writing here again, this is mroe like a suggestion rather than a question or bug report.

so, nollup uses express-ws. that library is ancient as hell (hasn't been updated for 3 years) and is full of unsolved issues.

see this thread: HenningM/express-ws#135

would it be better to replace express-ws with something newer?

[PepsRyuu]

Happy to change to it something else, open to suggestions on this one!

[talentlessguy]

@PepsRyuu I'm currently working on a library similar to express-ws... expect a PR soon :D

(fyi this issue was created in case someone will suggest anything better than express-ws)

[talentlessguy]

I propose tinyws as a replacement.

It's much smaller than express-ws, easier to use and comes with types out of the box (also doesn't depend on any framework but not that important here).

import express from 'express'

import { tinyws } from 'tinyws'

const app = express()

app.use('/', tinyws())

app.use('/hmr', async (req, res) => {
  if (req.ws) {
    const ws = await req.ws()

    return ws.send('hello there')
  } else {
    res.send('Hello from HTTP!')
  }
})

app.listen(3000)

[PepsRyuu]

Removed express-ws in 0.18.0 for plain ws.

[talentlessguy]

@PepsRyuu amazing, thanks :D