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twitch_irc

Twitch chat client for Deno

$ deno run --allow-net=irc-ws.chat.twitch.tv ./example.ts

Usage

import { TwitchIrcClient } from "https://deno.land/x/twitch_irc/mod.ts";

const channel = /*...*/;
const use = () => {/*...*/};

const client = new TwitchIrcClient();
client.on("open", () => {
  client.join(channel);
});
client.on("message", (message) => {
  use(message);
});

Features

  • Connection management
    • Authentication
    • Automatic reconnect
    • Automatic keep-alive
  • Correct message parsing1
  • Same message bypass for PRIVMSG
  • Auto-complete tag names
  • Latency measurement
  • Strong type safety2

Footnotes

  1. Some tag values can have a space in them, and the example parser by Twitch will not correctly handle that case. ↩

  2. The library uses string and template literal types extensively, for example to ensure that a channel has the # prefix - similar usage of these advanced type features simplifies the internals of the library greatly, and contributes towards making it less error prone to use. ↩