Meteor Server Websockets

Question

I am looking to create a websocket on Meteor Server (not client) to connect to an external site. I know the URL I am going to be hitting as well as what data to expect, but I am unclear as to how exactly to create the websocket itself. All the searching I do presents me with solutions for the client, but I have yet to run into anything that serves as a server solution.

Is there anything out there I missed that fills this purpose? Atmosherejs.com doesn't list anything, and searching around on google/github didn't reveal anything either. Is there something built into Meteor that already accomplishes this?

Answer 1

The following code is for opening a Socket in Meteor on Port 3003. It convert the data from the socket (sendet from client) to a JSON-Object. So this means, the following code is a socket, which receive JSON.

Fiber = Npm.require('fibers')

// server
Npm.require('net').createServer(function (socket) {
    console.log("connected");

    socket.on('data', function (data) {

        socket.write("hello!");

        var o = JSON.parse(data.toString());
        console.log(o);


        Fiber(function() { 
            console.log('Meteor code is executing');
            //=> Meteor code
        }).run();
        //console.log(data.toString());
        //socket.close();
    });
})

.listen(3003);