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Eureca.io

eureca.io : a nodejs bidirectional RPC that can use WebSocket, WebRTC or XHR fallback as transport layers

From Ezelia·Updated May 5, 2025·View on GitHub·

eureca (Easy Unobstructive REmote CAll) is a node.js bidirectional RPC library which can Websockets or WebRTC as transport layers. It allow you to call server side function from a browser or nodejs client and vice-versa. The project is written primarily in JavaScript, first published in 2013. Key topics include: multiplayer, realtime, remote-procedure-calls, rpc, webrtc.

eureca.io

eureca (Easy Unobstructive REmote CAll) is a node.js bidirectional RPC library which can Websockets or WebRTC as transport layers.
It allow you to call server side function from a browser or nodejs client and vice-versa.

  • WebRTC support is based on node-webrtc.

  • Websockets support is based on Primus.io making it possible to delegate the websocket part to any supported library by primus, including : engine.io, sockjs, faye, ws and uws.

please visit the project web page for more code samples http://eureca.io/

Documentation

The documentation.

Setup

NPM

Hello World example

Client calling server

Server side code

javascript
var Eureca = require('eureca.io'); var eurecaServer = new Eureca.Server(); eurecaServer.exports.helloServer = function (userName) { console.log('Hello Server from ',userName); }

Browser client side code

javascript
<script src="/eureca.js"></script> <body> <script> var client = new Eureca.Client(); client.ready(function (serverProxy) { serverProxy.helloServer(); //will call helloServer in the server side }); </script> </body>

Nodejs client side code

javascript
var Eureca = require('eureca.io'); var client = new Eureca.Client({ uri: 'http://localhost:8000/' }); client.ready(function (serverProxy) { serverProxy.helloServer(); });

More examples

please check node_modules/eureca.io/examples/ for some example codes

running 1-http-server example code

open a terminal window and type and cd to node_modules/eureca.io/examples/1-http-server/

     node server.js

now you can either open a browser window on http://localhost:8000/ or open another terminal window in the same directory and call
open a terminal window and type and cd to node_modules/eureca.io/examples/1-http-server/

     node client.js

you should see 'Hello from client' on the server side.

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016 Ezelia
Author : Alaa-eddine KADDOURI

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
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OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

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