Rails 5 - ActionCable client with pure WebSocket

Question

Is there a way to use a pure WebSocket library (browser or whatever) to connect to a channel from action cable in Rails ?

Am I tied to libs like: https://github.com/tomchinery/action-cable-node https://www.npmjs.com/package/actioncable-js or https://www.npmjs.com/package/actioncable

?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 03 '18 at 09:32

Yes, you can. ActionCable is the official compiled javascript of the coffee support provided by rails - npmified version through sprockets.

All you have to do is install it, require and

var ActionCable = require('actioncable')
var cable = ActionCable.createConsumer('wss://mydomain.com/cable')

     cable.subscriptions.create({ channel: 'ChatChannel' }, {
       received: (data) => {
         console.log(data);
       }
     });

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 20 '17 at 15:51

I'm facing the same issue. I think you can find a good example here, but I still haven't tested it: Consuming Rails 5 Action Cable.

I think is possible to consume Action Cable endpoint outside from the coffee / Rails frontend framewrok, it's just an hack to turn it working.

If you have better resources, feel free to share.

Rails 5 - ActionCable client with pure WebSocket

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