chrome-bus

Share an event emitter among chrome runtime components

Because managing anonymous events is not fun

This module is used by chromiumify

install

$ npm install chrome-bus

usage

basic

This usage is when you have a background page that you want to communicate to.

var createBus = require('chrome-bus')
var bus = createBus()

bus.on('hello', function (msg) {
  console.log('msg=', msg)
})

bus.emit('hello', Date.now())

webview

Communicating with webviews in chrome apps is not straight forward as a channel between the host page and the view needs to be created.

There is also no way for a page to know if it is being hosted in a webview.

So there are conventions for working around this.

Below are the main parts you need to understand but see the sample app for a working sample

host page

var view = document.getElementById('wv') 
view.addEventListener('contentload', function (evt) { // You have to wait for the webview to load before attaching the eventbus
  var wvbus = createBus(view) // Pass in the webview when creating the bus
  wvbus.on('goodbye', function (msg) {
    assert.ok('Message Received')
    console.log('msg=', msg)
  })
  
  wvbus.emit('hello', Date.now())
})

In the HTML for the view ensure that the URI to the location of the view contains a bookmark to fragment

<webview src="webview.html#fragment" id="wv" partition="wvevent" autosize="true" minwidth="500" minheight="450"></webview>

webview page

var bus = createBus() // no additional parameter is allowed as the #fragment tag is used to create a namespace

bus.on('hello', function (msg) {
  assert.ok('Message Received')
  console.log('msg=', msg)
  bus.emit('goodbye', Date.now())
})