Online Ping In Vanilla JavaScript – Ping.js

Ping.js is a vanilla JavaScript library to provide an online ping functionality on the client-side.

How to use it:

1. Install & download the package.

# NPM
$ npm i ping.js --save

2. Import the Ping.js as an ES module.

import Ping from 'ping.js';

3. Or load the compiled JavaScript from the dist folder.

<script src="dist/ping.min.js"></script>

4. Create a new Ping instance.

var p = new Ping();

5. Ping a specific website and get the response time.

p.ping("https://cssscript.com", function(err, data) {
  if (err) {
    console.log("no response")
  }
  document.getElementById("output").innerHTML = data;
});

6. Available options to customize the Ping tool.

var p = new Ping({
    // replace it with your own favicon
    favicon: "/favicon.ico",
    // timeout in ms
    timeout: 0,
    // whether to log errors
    logError: false
});

Changelog:

v0.3.0 (04/14/2021)

• Support ES6 Promise