Keep your network connections alive in node.js no matter what. Recon looks like a regular tcp connection but it listens for disconnect events and tries to re-establish the connection behind the scenes. While the connection is down, write() returns false and the data gets buffered. When the connection comes back up, recon emits a drain event.

var recon = require('recon');
var conn = recon(4321);

conn.on('data', function (buf) {
    var msg = buf.toString().trim()
    console.log(msg);
});

then fire up stayin_alive.js: $ node stayin_alive.js

and then you can listen on port 4321 with netcat, type some stuff, kill netcat, and fire it up again to type some more stuff: $ nc -lp 4321 nc: using stream socket everybody stop ^C $ nc -lp 4321 nc: using stream socket hammertime ^C

and meanwhile stayin_alive.js didn't skip a beat: $ node stayin_alive.js everybody stop hammertime

Create a connection. The arguments can be specified in kwargs or wherever in arguments list and are optional except port. cb is a function that gets the raw Stream object each time a new connection happens for tacking on methods like .setNoDelay().

Like stream.write, but buffers data while the module is reconnecting.

Terminate the connection (and don't reconnect).

Just like stream.

Emitted only the first time the connection is established.

Emitted each time the module establishes a connection after the first time.

Just like stream, unless err.errno is 111 (ECONNREFUSED), in which case the error gets eaten and recon reconnects behind the scenes.