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Distributed event bus

var verbose = require('verbose');
var node = verbose();

You can also give it some options:

var options = {
  node_id: 'NODE-ID-000001'
};

var node = verbose(options);

Here are the options:

option	description	default
node_id	node identifier for other peers	random UUID
timeout	inactivity timeout (ms)	60000
bufferTimeout	maximum retransmit resilience	900000
bufferMax	maximum number of buffered messages kept by peer	1000
acknowledgeInterval	message acknowledge interva (ms)	1000
maxPeers	message acknowledge interva (ms)	1000
transport	transport name or object. If object, must provide a `listen` and a `connect` methods. See example	"tcp"

node.listen(port);

node.connect(port[, host]);

node.emit('event', 'a', 1);

node.on('event', function() {
  console.log('got event:', arguments);
});

node.end();

You can access the underlying stream:

node.stream.on('end', function() {
  console.log('node ended');
});

Besides being a duplex stream, it emits the following events:

connect - when the peer connects to the remote peer (transport layer)
peerid - when the remote peer gets identified during the hand-shake protocol
initialized - when the peer handshakes with the remote peer
acknowledge - when there is an acknowledge message from the remote peer
disconnect - when a peer gets disconnected from the remote peer
reconnect - when the peer reconnects to the remote peer
backoff - when the reconnect algorithm has to back off because of an unsuccessful retry

When connecting you can get access to the peer object:

var peer = node.connect(port, host);

Which you can then use to end:

peer.end();

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