joewalnes/reconnecting-websocket
Reconnecting Websocket
reconnecting-websocket is a JavaScript utility that wraps the standard WebSocket API to provide automatic reconnection and session management. It functions as a decorator for WebSocket instances, ensuring that dropped network connections are restored to maintain continuous real-time data streaming.
The library implements an API-compatible wrapper, allowing it to be integrated into existing projects without requiring changes to the underlying code. It utilizes exponential backoff polling to schedule reconnection attempts at increasing intervals and provides a mechanism to force a manual connection reset to clear stale sessions.
The project manages the connection lifecycle through event-driven state management and closure-based event delegation, proxying native socket events to the wrapper instance to ensure network resilience during intermittent outages.
Features
- Websocket Connection Managers - Provides a comprehensive manager for persistent WebSocket connections including automatic reconnection and lifecycle handling.
- WebSocket Reconnections with Backoff - Implements automatic reconnection of WebSocket links using an exponential backoff strategy to prevent server overload.
- Automatic Connection Recovery - Automatically restores dropped WebSocket communication channels to maintain application functionality after failures.
- Reconnection Wrappers - Provides a JavaScript wrapper for the WebSocket API that automatically restores dropped network connections.
- Exponential Backoff Retries - Schedules reconnection attempts using increasing intervals to protect servers during network outages.
- WebSocket Decorators - Functions as a lightweight decorator that adds automatic reconnection behavior to standard JavaScript WebSocket instances.
- Session Resets - Provides a manual reset capability to force a full teardown and immediate re-establishment of the socket.
- Standard Library Wrappers - Implements a wrapper around the standard WebSocket API to ensure seamless integration without changing existing code.
- Resilient Networking Patterns - Implements resilient networking patterns that allow web applications to recover from intermittent internet outages.
- Real-Time Data Streaming - Ensures continuous live data streaming by preventing permanent connection failures.
