https://github.com/jakutis/bazaar

A publish-subscribe (broadcast-listen) layer for same-origin inter-window communication.
https://github.com/jakutis/bazaar

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A publish-subscribe (broadcast-listen) layer for same-origin inter-window communication.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jakutis/bazaar
• Owner: jakutis
• License: mit
• Created: 2014-02-18T14:19:11.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2014-02-18T19:38:17.000Z (almost 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-14T23:09:57.553Z (2 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage: https://www.npmjs.org/package/bazaar
• Size: 164 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.markdown
  • License: LICENSE

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# bazaar

A publish-subscribe (broadcast-listen) layer for same-origin inter-window communication.

- [Overview](#overview)

- [Installation](#installation)

- [API](#api)

- [Development](#development)

## Overview

* Let's you broadcast messages to all opened windows, which are listening.

* Tested on these web browsers:

  * Mozilla Firefox 2.0+

  * Opera 10.50+

  * Google Chrome 5+

  * Microsoft Internet Explorer 6+

  * Apple Safari 4.0+

## Installation

  Install manually by adding to your HTML file:

    

  Install with [npm](https://www.npmjs.org/package/bazaar):

    $ npm install --save bazaar

  Install with [component](http://component.io/jakutis/bazaar):

    $ component install jakutis/bazaar

  Install with [bower](http://bower.io):

    $ bower install --save bazaar

## API

[demo code](https://jakut.is/demos/bazaar/)

    // '/bazaar-worker.js' specifies the url of worker script

    // 'hub1' specifies the namespace, this argument is optional, default is '__bazaar__'

    var hub = window.bazaar('/bazaar-worker.js', 'hub1');

    if(hub === null) {

        alert('your web browser is not supported');

    } else {

        document.onmousedown = function() {

            hub.broadcast(new Date().getTime());

        };

        hub.listen(function(err, ts) {

            if(err) {

                return alert("An error occurred when receiving a message.");

            }

            alert(ts);

        });

    }

## Development

    TODO