Hey reader, I’m trying to build an app using tmi.js (https://www.tmijs.org/),
The code I need to find a place for is the following:
// Initialize a client and connect it to Twitch.
clientOptions = {} // not important for example
client = new tmi.client(clientOptions);
client.connect()
I’ve put this in server.js before the Meteor.startup and it loads up fine (terminal shows it connecting and joining a channel). But then I want to define a listener, for example (https://docs.tmijs.org/v1.1.2/Events.html#chat):
// Listen to the 'chat' event on the client.
client.on("chat", function (channel, userstate, message, self) {
// Do stuff.
});
I can’t figure out where in Meteor structure such a thing would go. I’ve tried putting it in the server.js as well, just to test, and added a Messages.insert (figured I’d just save it somewhere so I can read it from the db in another component) but then I get a Fiber error and rightly so.
I reckon I need to put the entire client in a component so it is scoped properly but I’m just spitballing here.
Can anyone show me where to look/what to try? I’ve done the todos tutorial etc. but I can’t find any use cases related to what I’m trying to accomplish, although I reckon it should be peanuts since in plain js it works easily enough (but I want to use the nice framework for all the UI capabilities I need to add).