livecodingspace-db/index.js

// var fs = require('fs'),
//     argv = require('optimist').argv

var config = require('./readConfig');

var Gun = require('gun')
require('gun/sea')
require('gun/lib/path')
require('gun/lib/not')
require('gun/nts')
require('gun/lib/bye')

config.readConfigFile();
var conf = config.parseConfigOptions();


var config = { port: conf.port };
//create the server

if (conf.ssl) {
    config.server = require('https').createServer(conf.sslOptions, Gun.serve(__dirname));
} else {
    config.server = require('http').createServer(Gun.serve(__dirname));
}

global.gun = Gun({ web: config.server.listen(config.port), axe: false}); //until: 5000, chunk: 10 
console.log('Relay peer started on port ' + config.port + ' with /gun');

let tickMsg = {
    parameters: [],
    time: 'tick'//hb
};

global.gun.get('server').get('heartbeat').get('tick').put(JSON.stringify(tickMsg));

//instance.get('heartbeat').put({ tick: "{}" }).heartbeat(0.0, 1);

setInterval(function () {

    let message = {
        parameters: "[]",
        time: 'tick', //hb
        sender: 'server'
    };

    global.gun.get('server').get('heartbeat').get('tick').put(message,function(ack){
        if(ack.err){ 
            console.log('ERROR: ' + ack.err)
        }});

}, 50);