Communicating between NodeJS and C using node-ipc and unix sockets

Jodes

2016-10-04T07:26:51

I want to communicate between NodeJS and a C program using node-ipc, over a Unix socket, which according to that homepage is the fastest option. (They will be on the same machine). That package claims it could communicate with a C program. (I had to sanity check).

The problem is the examples don't give example C code, and I have next to no idea how I'd get them to talk.

Can anyone point me to an example of C code to match those client/server examples? For example, how would I adapt this tutorial on working with unix pipes in C (Assuming I'm not completely off track?! Maybe it's "domain sockets" that I want instead?) None of this is making any sense to me, I'm missing something crucial.

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