# js-libp2p-websockets [![](https://img.shields.io/badge/made%20by-Protocol%20Labs-blue.svg?style=flat-square)](http://ipn.io) [![](https://img.shields.io/badge/project-IPFS-blue.svg?style=flat-square)](http://ipfs.io/) [![](https://img.shields.io/badge/freenode-%23ipfs-blue.svg?style=flat-square)](http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23ipfs) [![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/github/libp2p/js-libp2p-websockets/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://coveralls.io/github/libp2p/js-libp2p-websockets?branch=master) [![Travis CI](https://travis-ci.org/libp2p/js-libp2p-websockets.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/libp2p/js-libp2p-websockets) [![Circle CI](https://circleci.com/gh/libp2p/js-libp2p-websockets.svg?style=svg)](https://circleci.com/gh/libp2p/js-libp2p-websockets) [![Dependency Status](https://david-dm.org/libp2p/js-libp2p-websockets.svg?style=flat-square)](https://david-dm.org/libp2p/js-libp2p-websockets) [![js-standard-style](https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-standard-brightgreen.svg?style=flat-square)](https://github.com/feross/standard) ![](https://img.shields.io/badge/npm-%3E%3D3.0.0-orange.svg?style=flat-square) ![](https://img.shields.io/badge/Node.js-%3E%3D4.0.0-orange.svg?style=flat-square) [![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libp2p/interface-transport/master/img/badge.png)](https://github.com/libp2p/interface-transport) [![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libp2p/interface-connection/master/img/badge.png)](https://github.com/libp2p/interface-connection) > JavaScript implementation of the WebSockets module that libp2p uses and that implements the interface-transport interface ## Lead Maintainer [Jacob Heun](https://github.com/jacobheun) ## Description `libp2p-websockets` is the WebSockets implementation compatible with libp2p. ## Usage ## Install ### npm ```sh > npm i libp2p-websockets ``` ### Example ```js const WS = require('libp2p-websockets') const multiaddr = require('multiaddr') const pull = require('pull-stream') const mh = multiaddr('/ip4/0.0.0.0/tcp/9090/ws') const ws = new WS() const listener = ws.createListener((socket) => { console.log('new connection opened') pull( pull.values(['hello']), socket ) }) listener.listen(mh, () => { console.log('listening') pull( ws.dial(mh), pull.collect((err, values) => { if (!err) { console.log(`Value: ${values.toString()}`) } else { console.log(`Error: ${err}`) } // Close connection after reading listener.close() }), ) }) ``` ## API ### Transport [![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libp2p/interface-transport/master/img/badge.png)](https://github.com/libp2p/interface-transport) ### Connection [![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/libp2p/interface-connection/master/img/badge.png)](https://github.com/libp2p/interface-connection)