BridgeNet2, v1.0.0 | A blazing fast networking library for Roblox

IISato · June 3, 2023, 5:23pm

Thank you so much for this wrapper.

jmesrje · June 3, 2023, 5:31pm

I have noticed that the wait time for a client/server response on events is very troubling sometimes. Since it flat out throws an error, a guy with bad internet could destroy your game. I think it should be removed completely unless there’s something in the backend I’m not aware of.

imlordlight · June 7, 2023, 9:15pm

Hey! BridgeNet1 user here, I just got back into working on an old project and I’m happy to see there’s a new and improved BridgeNet2.

I found the github but not too much documentation other than the 5 pages I read. I just was wondering how easy it would be to transition from BridgeNet1 to BridgeNet2?

How much is plug and play, and how much would I have to go back to adjust old code (is something like “Bridge:Connect(function()” going to be the same?)

Thanks so much for the hard work, BridgeNet literally made my game playable at one point.

ffrostfall · June 8, 2023, 9:37pm

Feature parity should be very similar- you’ll need to rename a few things, but other than that you’re fine.

ffrostfall · June 8, 2023, 9:38pm

version 0.3.0: 6/8/2023

Added Hoarcekat support
Massive internal re-structuring
Renamed FromIdentifier and FromCompressed to Serialize and Deserialize
NumberToBestForm removed (feature bloat)
StartLogging and StopLogging have been removed in favor of object.Logging =
Logging now displays the packet size in bytes (using @PysephDEV’s RemotePacketSizeCounter package)
Compliant with strict Luau typing
Type improvements
Internally commented the entire project
Removed SetSecurity and SecurityEnums in favor of HandleInvalidPlayer
Literally dozens of bugfixes

This update took a hot second to make, and should put the project in a much better spot now. The only breaking changes this update are w/ .FromIdentifier and .FromCompressed, alongside the security functions.

There’s a lot of other stuff I have to address with this project, but that will come later. Please notify me of any bugs, this was a massive update.

I will be updating the documentation eventually, however don’t expect it anytime soon. My main focus right now is to focus on fixing the glaring issues with the library. However now that the library is in a decent spot I’ll be focusing more on documentation/visuals.

ffrostfall · June 8, 2023, 9:54pm

I would like some more elaboration- what error exactly?

NidhoGames · June 8, 2023, 10:41pm

I am so excited thank you very much, i check everyday for updates lol

jmesrje · June 9, 2023, 2:07am

The “Identifier reached max wait time, task not canceled” or whatever it was.

ffrostfall · June 9, 2023, 2:37am

That should be fixed as of 0.3.0

ffrostfall · June 11, 2023, 1:48am

version 0.4.0: 6/10/2023

Added

Added BridgeNet2.ServerBridge and BridgeNet2.ClientBridge constructors- they are identical to ReferenceBridge, just with better types. The current ReferenceBridge will not be deprecated or affected by this.
Instead of being limited to tables, you can now pass any type into :Fire(). This means you can finally pass in nil values to :Fire() too.

Fixes

Fixed rate limiting
Re-added methods on the Bridge type to types

Improvements

Added Connection type to Bridge:Connect() functions
RateLimitActive is now a public boolean that can be set by the user
Improved error messages
Improved logger readability.
I made a script to automate releases- there should hopefully be less inconsistencies with releases from now on.

As always, let me know any issues.
quick preview for logging:

Ophidie · June 11, 2023, 4:25am

Just wondering if there is a roblox-ts port for this yet? I would love to use BridgeNet2 for my projects.

Katrist · June 11, 2023, 5:06am

This is a very good module but I have a problem.

I’m firing an event like this whenever a player presses a button:

Rebirth:Fire()

This should work, but no matter how many times a player presses the button, nothing happens.

But for example, if I fired an event before the rebirth event like this:

Event:Fire("")

Then the rebirth event would start working whenever I pressed the button.

Summary:
Firing an event with no arguments only registers if an event was fired with arguments previously

Sorry if my explanation was a bit iffy, here’s the repo file:
Repo.rbxl (73.0 KB)

ffrostfall · June 11, 2023, 5:13am

Found the issue- was relying on the #table operator to get the length, when you can’t do that because it is extremely inconsistent when there’s holes in arrays…

Thanks for the bug report, this is an edge case. Fixing it

edit: holy hell

Server

case 1

Client

Output

case 2

Client

Output

ffrostfall · June 11, 2023, 5:43am

version 0.4.1: 6/11/2023

Fixes

Fixed some behavior w/ nil values

jmesrje · June 11, 2023, 1:56pm

bro really pushed an update at 12:40 am

NidhoGames · June 11, 2023, 3:24pm

three updates in a row, nice. gonna have to work on my game today

3_F7 · June 12, 2023, 3:11pm

peak development is at 12:30 am

commitblue · June 12, 2023, 10:33pm

I disagree. Peak development is at 3:00 am. Ignore all the trylodogytes that say “3 am is cursed” you get reallllly productive that time and motivation and finish the game/package/library/framework in an INSTANT.

AltezVCT · June 15, 2023, 8:38am

Hey, I was just wondering if .new has been replaced with the ClientBridge and ServerBridge thing? If so, how does the firing work for it now? Sort of a little confused with the documentation.

Help much appreciated!

ffrostfall · June 15, 2023, 12:36pm

BridgeNet2 has never had a public new function for ClientBridge or ServerBridge, it’s always been prefixed with an underscore. ReferenceBridge is how you’re supposed to create bridges, ClientBridge() and ServerBridge() are just if you want slightly better typechecking.

I don’t think there were any major breaking changes in 0.4.0