Talkie

Talkie is a Roblox module for remote communicating. Based on Comm module from Stephen Leitnick.

Installation

Use the package manager Wally to install Talkie.

Install Wally

aftman init
aftman add UpliftGames/wally
aftman install

Create new Wally project (or use the already created)

wally init

Install Talkie

Add this line into dependencies on your wally.toml file

Talkie = "themusaigen/talkie@1.25.0"

Usage

Talkie/examples/client/Basic.client.lua

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	-- Load the Talkie.
	local Talkie = require(game.ReplicatedStorage.Talkie) -- In your project it might be ReplicatedStorage.Packages.Talkie
	-- Or:
	-- local Talkie = require(game.ReplicatedStorage.Talkie.Client) IntelliSense only for client methods
	-- Create the instance of Talkie. If you required Talkie directly by your side (Client/Server), you must use `new` method.
	local client =
	Talkie.Client(--[[Package: ReplicatedStorage.SomeFolder/Services, etc...]] --[[, namespace: "MyService"]])
	-- Or the same, but IntelliSense will show Client + Server methods
	-- local client = Talkie.new(sameArgs as Above)
	-- Grab the RemoteFunction from storage.
	-- NOTE: On client these methods only grabs remotes, not create!
	local example = client:Function("ExampleFunction")
	-- Another remotes, like Event, Property, etc...
	--[[ Or auto-parse method.
	local remotes = client:Parse()
	local example = remotes.ExampleFunction
	]]
	example:Listen(function(arg)
	print(`Server told us: {arg}`)
	end)
	example:Invoke("Hello, server!")

Talkie/examples/server/Basic.server.lua

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	-- Load the Talkie.
	local Talkie = require(game.ReplicatedStorage.Talkie) -- In your project it might be ReplicatedStorage.Packages.Talkie
	-- Or:
	-- local Talkie = require(game.ReplicatedStorage.Talkie.Server) IntelliSense only for Server methods
	-- Create the instance of Talkie. If you required Talkie directly by your side (Client/Server), you must use `new` method.
	local server = Talkie.Server(--[[Package: ReplicatedStorage.SomeFolder/Services/etc...]] --[[, namespace: "MyService"]])
	-- Or the same, but IntelliSense will show Client + Server methods
	-- local server = Talkie.new(sameArgs as Above)
	-- Create `ExampleFunction`.
	-- NOTE: On server these methods only creates remotes, not grabs!
	local example = server:Function("ExampleFunction")
	-- Another remotes creation, like Event, Property, etc...
	example:Listen(function(player, arg)
	print(`{player.Name} told us: {arg}`)
	end)
	game.Players.PlayerAdded:Connect(function(player)
	player.CharacterAdded:Connect(function()
	example:Invoke(player, "Hello, client!")
	end)
	end)

For other examples see examples folder.

License

MIT, see LICENSE for detailed information.