Hello World

The goal of this quick tutorial is to get an up and running eureca.io client/server in less than five minutes.

The client side is a webpage with one button, when clicked it call a server side function.

The server side run on nodejs and call a function in the client side each time a new client is connected.

Server side

installing eureca.io

npm install eureca.io
npm install engine.io

Note:
Bby default eureca.io use engine.io transport this is why we need to install it

Server skeleton

The following code, create an http server and serve index.html file when you visit http://localhost:8080/ (the index.html will contain client code)

There is no eureca.io stuff here, only pure nodejs code :)

var http = require('http');
var fs = require('fs');
var server = http.createServer();

// == Eureca.io code goes here


// == end Eureca.io code

server.on('request', function (request, response) {    
    if (request.method === 'GET') {        
        if (request.url.split('?')[0] === '/') {
            var filename = __dirname + '/index.html';
            fs.readFile(filename, function (err, data) {
                var text = data.toString();
                response.writeHead(200, { 'Content-Type': 'text/html' });
                response.write(text);
                response.end();
            });
        }
    }

});

server.listen(8080);

Server side eureca.io stuff

// == Eureca.io code goes here
var Eureca = require('eureca.io');

//Create eureca server
//and allow it to call clientEcho remote function 
var eurecaServer = new Eureca.Server({allow:['clientEcho']});

//attach it to http server
eurecaServer.attach(server); 

//functions under exports namespace become callable from client side
eurecaServer.exports.serverEcho = function(msg) {
    console.log('Server received : ', msg);
}

//each time a client is connected we call
eurecaServer.onConnect(function(socket) {
    var client = socket.clientProxy; //get remote client ref

    //call remote clientEcho function 
    client.clientEcho('Hello from server');
})
// == end Eureca.io code

Note: In the server side, you need to explicitly allow remote function you'll be able to call.

Client side

Preparing client

index.html skeleton

<!doctype html>
<html>
    <head>
    <!-- init eureca.io -->
        <script src="/eureca.js"></script>
    </head>
    <body>    
    <button id="helloBtn">Say Hello</button>

        <script>
// == Eureca.io code goes here


// == end Eureca.io code
        </script>
    </body>
</html>

Note : You need to add eureca.js script to your page to be able to use eureca.io, this script is dynamically served by eureca server.

Client side eureca.io stuff

// == Eureca.io code goes here

//note we don't need "allow" parameter here
var eurecaClient = new Eureca.Client();

//export the method to be called from the server
eurecaClient.exports.clientEcho = function(msg) {
    alert(msg);
}

//eureca client cannot issue remote calls before ready event.
//we need to wait for it
eurecaClient.ready(function(serverProxy) {
    var btn = document.getElementById('helloBtn');

    btn.onclick = function() {
        serverProxy.serverEcho('Hello from client');
    }
});

// == end Eureca.io code

Test the code

Save the server code in a file called server.js
Save the client code in a file called index.html in same directory
Start the server

node server.js

open a web browser and visit : http://localhost:8080/

if everything goes fine, you'll see an alert message saying "Hello from server".
and when you click on "Say Hello" button you see the server printing "Server received : Hello from client"

Congratulations you made your first eureca.io code!

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