is-connected

check if connected to internet on regular intervals and emit events accordingly. Currently you can check for internet using DNS and PING more methods will be added in future, suggestions are welcome.

Installation

npm install is-connected --save

Example

    'use strict';
    let IsConnected = require('is-connected');

    let isConnectivity = new IsConnected();
    isConnectivity.on('connected', function connected() {
        console.log('internet connected');
    }).on('disconnected', function disconnected() {
        console.log('internet not connected');
    }).init('dns');

Options

    // Defaults: check_interval=1000ms (milliseconds),
    // host_name=google.com (address or ip)
    // ping_timeout=5 (timeout in seconds for ping command, if ping specified on init)
    let isConnectivity = new IsConnected(<check_interval>,<host_name>,<ping_timeout);

    // Use init to start, has 2 options dns or ping, defaults to dns
    isConnectivity.init() // defaults to DNS
    isConnectivity.init('dns'[,resolve or lookup]); //optional params resolve | lookup
    isConnectivity.init('ping'[,win32 or linux]);   //optional params win32 | linux 

Note

windows has shown a difference in behaviour as compared to linux, has been tested on linux.