Is it possible to ping a server from Javascript?

Question

I\'m making a web app that requires that I check to see if remote servers are online or not. When I run it from the command line, my page load goes up to a full 60s (for 8 e

Answer 1

let webSite = 'https://google.com/' 
https.get(webSite, function (res) {
    // If you get here, you have a response.
    // If you want, you can check the status code here to verify that it's `200` or some other `2xx`.
    console.log(webSite + ' ' + res.statusCode)
}).on('error', function(e) {
    // Here, an error occurred.  Check `e` for the error.
    console.log(e.code)
});;

if you run this with node it would console log 200 as long as google is not down.