1.md

Sending a message with node-xmpp

Basically, you just need to create a client, and then send a formatted chunk of XML representing the message. The spec here has the details on what that XML should look like, and ltx is used to create that element.

jabber.js

var XMPP = require('node-xmpp')

var client = new XMPP.Client(
      { boshURL: "https://beta.buddycloud.org/http-bind/"
      , jid: 'paul.sweeney@jabber.org'
      , password: 'xxxxxxxxxxx'
      }
    );

client.on = client.addListener

function Message(to, body) {
  var message = new XMPP.Element('message', {to: to, type: 'chat'})
  return message.c('body').t(body)
}

client.on('online', function() {
  client.send(new Message("8bitdesigner@gmail.com", "Oh hai!"))
  client.end()   // nodejs has nothing left to do and will exit
})

client.on('error', function(e) {
  console.error(e)
})

Notes - I'm using a BOSH transport here, ideally the next step is to shove this in browserify and supply the XMPP lib that way.