Missing types

[sylvainlap]

Hello,

First of all, congrats for your incredible work !

I want to use Noray as a lib for my Typescript server, but as Noray does not have types, I got the "Could not find a declaration file for module '@foxssake/noray'" at compilation. Do you plan to add types, so Noray can be used as an external lib in a Typescript project ?

Thanks.

[elementbound]

Hi @sylvainlap,

Thanks! 😄 Currently noray is vanilla JS, with extensive JSDoc coverage for types. I plan an eventual rewrite to TypeScript + Bun, but in the meanwhile I think it's possible to extract .d.ts files from JSDocs.

On another note, how do you plan on using noray? So far this kind of usage was not on the radar, so I'm interested what people are doing with it 🙂

[sylvainlap]

Hello,

I'll try to make a .d.ts file from your link, thanks !

A rewrite in Typescript would be great ! But why Bun over Deno ?

I plan to use Noray as a server to create lobbies, so that people on my multiplayer game can create & host lobbies, and other players can connect (peer2peer). At the beginning, I wanted to create my own server to generate & store lobby ids (a 5-digit serie of letters) in a Redis server, but in fact, with a little Noray configation, I figure out that I don't even need to write some code, Noray can do it all by itself ! Moreover, npm does not have the last release of Noray, I had to set the Github url in my package.json file to get the latest version. So i'm still wondering if I will use Noray as a dependency, or just use it standalone.

Regards,
Sylvain

[elementbound]

A rewrite in Typescript would be great ! But why Bun over Deno ?

Mostly preference 🙂

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As for lobbies, noray itself is mainly focused on connecting people, so its featureset is not strongly targeted towards lobbies. But! We have a recent project just for that: https://github.com/foxssake/nohub

It's feature-complete for its first version - you can create, join, and list lobbies, make them private, or lock them if you don't want anyone to join.

With nohub, each lobby has an address string. So when someone wants to join a lobby, nohub replies with this address. This can be any arbitrary string, as long as your game can connect based on it. It could be a raw address like 39.239.202.217:17553.

You can even use nohub together with noray, so your host connects to noray, and uses their OID as the address string for their lobby.

Of course it's up to you which works best for your project - it's entirely valid to just tweak noray's OID generation settings and use that, but wanted to mention nohub as an option too!

If you're interested, you could also join on Discord, I usually make announcements on new releases there.

[sylvainlap]

So, nohub is kind of the successor of natty ?
I do not need to list lobbies, so I think noray is all what I need (at least today).

Thanks for all your projects, I'll join the Discord !

[elementbound]

So, nohub is kind of the successor of natty ?

Kind of 😄 Originally I wanted natty to do everything that noray does today + manage lobbies + possibly much more. Then after a while I've realized that natty is trying to do too much in one package, and I don't even have a game yet to use it with 😄

So now I'm trying to build more focused tools, hence noray managing only connections, and nohub managing lobbies on top of it.