twitch_irc

Twitch chat client for Deno

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

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

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

Run an example

$ CHANNEL=<your_channel> deno run \
  --allow-env=CHANNEL \
  --allow-net=irc-ws.chat.twitch.tv \
  https://deno.land/x/twitch_irc/example.ts

You can also inspect it using devtools:

$ CHANNEL=<your_channel> deno run \
  --inspect-brk \
  --allow-env=CHANNEL \
  --allow-net=irc-ws.chat.twitch.tv \
  https://deno.land/x/twitch_irc/example.ts

In this case, the client will be available on the window object as client.