Is it possible to ping a server from Javascript?

Question

I\'m making a web app that requires that I check to see if remote servers are online or not. When I run it from the command line, my page load goes up to a full 60s (for 8 e

Answer 1

const ping = (url, timeout = 6000) => {
  return new Promise((reslove, reject) => {
    const urlRule = new RegExp('(https?|ftp|file)://[-A-Za-z0-9+&@#/%?=~_|!:,.;]+[-A-Za-z0-9+&@#/%=~_|]');
    if (!urlRule.test(url)) reject('invalid url');
    try {
      fetch(url)
        .then(() => reslove(true))
        .catch(() => reslove(false));
      setTimeout(() => {
        reslove(false);
      }, timeout);
    } catch (e) {
      reject(e);
    }
  });
};

use like this:

ping('https://stackoverflow.com/')
  .then(res=>console.log(res))
  .catch(e=>console.log(e))