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RPC client for Node

Purpose

RPC client factory, returning a RequestRPC instance using the HTTP transport if the provided endpoint is a HTTP URL, or a StreamRPC instance using the WebSocket transport if the provided endpoint is a WebSocket URL or the IPC transport if the provided endpoint is a socket path.

Installation

npm install @erebos/rpc-node

Usage

import { createRPC } from '@erebos/rpc-node'

const rpcOverHTTP = createRPC('http://localhost') // RequestRPC using HTTP transport
const rpcOverWS = createRPC('ws://localhost') // StreamRPC using WebSocket transport
const rpcOverIPC = createRPC('/path/to/socket') // StreamRPC using ICP transport

API

createRPC()

Arguments

1. endpoint: string: socket path, HTTP or WebSocket URL to connect to.

Returns RequestRPC (with HTTP endpoint) or StreamRPC (with IPC path or WebSocket endpoint).