How to connect together scsynth and sclang in the same nodejs app.

[fibonacid]

What is the simplest way to connect an interpreter and a server in the same nodejs application.
This should be the desired behavior:

Setup

• boot scsynth
• boot sclang

Runtime

When a user input some text:

• feed sclang with input
• dispatch result to scsynth
• (hear a sound)

Version

v1.0.0.beta.1

[crucialfelix]

In this case you are using sclang to play the sound, so I think you should keep it simple and start the server from sclang as normal:

Server.default.boot;

Try that first.

I could add some way to boot both and to get sclang to connect to the already running scsynth. This would have two advantages:

• It would boot faster: don't have to wait for sclang to come up before starting scsynth
• If your node/electron app shuts down then the scsynth process will be shut down correctly because it is a child process of the node process.

Something like this would work, but I haven't tested it yet:

Promise.all([
  sc.server.boot(),
  sc.lang.boot()
]).then(async ([server, lang]) => {

  // figure out what the correct values here are:
  await lang.interpret(`Server.default = Server.remote(name, addr, options, clientID)`);
  // now you can run code as if the server and lang are already booted
})

[fibonacid]

That's great, thanks !!