Websocket Documentation Missing Website Integration

[jackn11]

In the web socket documentation found here https://genieframework.github.io/Genie.jl/dev/tutorials/17--Working_with_Web_Sockets.html, there are no examples of web sockets being implemented with any other html. They are only implemented on their own with the response from the Assets.channels_support() function. Thus it is very unclear to me how I can include this in a Genie website that contains html. I started a discourse here as well https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-add-websocket-to-genie-site/84976.

[jackn11]

@essenciary I was hoping you could help me figure out how to add a websocket to an MVC app. I have read the entire genie.jl documentation and still cannot figure it out. Please let me know how this can be done.

[essenciary]

You put <% Genie.Assets.channels_support() %> inside the HTML of your web page and this outputs a <script>...</script> tag and sets up routing and everything else.

This in effect, in the browser, gives you access to a Genie.WebChannels object and you can call Genie.WebChannels.sendMessageTo(...) to push data over the websocket.

On the server, you define the corresponding channel(...) to catch/route/delegate these websockets requests to your handler functions.

[essenciary]

We could include a simple client - server example using web pages in the docs.

[jackn11]

Thank you very much for your answer, that worked for me!

That info should definitely be included in the docs. It would be very helpful.