To help you get started, we've collected the most common ways that irc-framework is being used within popular public projects.

daGrevis / msks / server / src / irc / index.js View on Github

const _ = require('lodash')
const ircFramework = require('irc-framework')

const config = require('../config')
const { versionText } = require('../version')

const ircClient = new ircFramework.Client({
  host: config.irc.host,
  port: config.irc.port,
  nick: config.irc.nick,
  username: config.irc.username,
  password: config.irc.password,
  tls: config.irc.tls,
  gecos: config.irc.gecos,
  auto_reconnect: true,
  // Tries to reconnect for at least 5 hours.
  auto_reconnect_wait: 2000 + Math.round(Math.random() * 2000),
  auto_reconnect_max_retries: 9000,
  version: versionText,
})

let ctx = {
  connectionTime: null,

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irc-framework

A better IRC framework for node.js. For bots and full clients. Read the documentation.

Aims

• Lightweight
• Performant
• Very easy to get going out of the box
• Grows as needed for larger applications
• IRCv3 compliant
• Multiple (+ auto detected) encoding support
• Complete test suite

A simple and low-boilerplate framework to build IRC bots.

var bot = new IRC.Client();
bot.connect({
	host: 'irc.freenode.net',
	port: 6667,
	nick: 'prawnsbot'
});

bot.on('message', function(event) {
  	if (event.message.indexOf('hello') === 0) {
  		  event.reply('Hi!');
  	}
  	
  	if (event.message.match(/^!join /)) {
  		var to_join = event.message.split(' ')[1];
  		event.reply('Joining ' + to_join + '..');
  		bot.join(to_join);
  	}
});


// Or a quicker to match messages...
bot.matchMessage(/^hi/, function(event) {
	event.reply('hello there!');
});

Channel/buffer objects. Great for building clients

var bot = new IRC.Client();
bot.connect({
	host: 'irc.freenode.net',
	port: 6667,
	nick: 'prawnsbot'
});

var buffers = [];
bot.on('registered', function() {
	var channel = bot.channel('#prawnsalad');
	buffers.push(channel);
	
	channel.join();
	channel.say('Hi!');
	
	channel.updateUsers(function() {
		console.log(channel.users);
	});

	// Or you could even stream the channel messages elsewhere
	var stream = channel.stream();
	stream.pipe(process.stdout);
});

Middleware

function ExampleMiddleware() {
	return function(client, raw_events, parsed_events) {
		parsed_events.use(theMiddleware);
	}


	function theMiddleware(command, event, client, next) {
		if (command === 'registered') {
			if (client.options.nickserv) {
				var options = client.options.nickserv;
				client.say('nickserv', 'identify ' + options.account + ' ' + options.password);
			}
		}

		if (command === 'message' && client.caseCompare(event.event.nick, 'nickserv')) {
			// Handle success/retries/failures
		}

		next();
	}
}


var irc_bot = new IRC.Client();
irc_bot.use(ExampleMiddleware());