diff --git a/.eslintrc.js b/.eslintrc.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2bed546
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.eslintrc.js
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+module.exports = {
+  "ecmaFeatures": {
+    "modules": true,
+    "spread" : true,
+    "restParams" : true
+  },
+  "env": {
+    "es6": true,
+    "node": true,
+    "mocha": true
+  },
+  "parserOptions": {
+    "ecmaVersion": 2017,
+    "sourceType": "module"
+  },
+  "extends": "eslint:recommended",
+  "rules": {
+    "indent": [
+      "error",
+      2
+    ],
+    "no-console": 0,
+    "semi": ["error", "never"],
+    "linebreak-style": [
+      "error",
+      "unix"
+    ],
+    "quotes": [
+      "error",
+      "single"
+    ]
+  }
+}
diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..caddd9f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+/node_modules/
+/coverage/
+/syncd/
+*.log
+/temp/
diff --git a/.npmignore b/.npmignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f16fc41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.npmignore
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+tests/
+test/
+*.test.js
+testing/
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5b0b93e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+language: node_js
+
+node_js:
+  - '7.10'
+  - 'node'
+
+sudo: false
+
+script: npm test
+
+after_success:
+ - bash <(curl -s https://codecov.io/bash) || echo "Codecov did not collect coverage reports"
diff --git a/examples/.gitignore b/examples/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b049ffa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+*.sock
+/node_modules/
diff --git a/examples/server.mjs b/examples/server.mjs
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index 0000000..bd8770c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/server.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+import { Socket } from '../src'
+
+  ;
+(async () => {
+
+  class Test extends Socket {
+    constructor(opts) {
+      super(opts)
+    }
+
+    // async _packetProcess(packet) {
+    //   console.log('packet being processed at socket', packet)
+    //   if (packet.cmd) return await this[packet.cmd](packet.data,packet.name)
+    //   return  {error: 'no command in packet', packet: packet }
+    // }
+    //
+    // async doit(data,name) {
+    //   return new Promise(resolve => {
+    //     let res = {}
+    //     console.log('data sent to doit = ', data)
+    //     res.status ='success'
+    //     res.name = name
+    //     res.cmd = 'reply'
+    //     res.data = data
+    //     resolve(res)
+    //   })
+    // }
+
+  }
+
+  // let test = new Test()
+  let test = new Test({port:8090})
+  console.log(await test.create())
+
+})().catch(err => {
+  console.error('FATAL: UNABLE TO START SYSTEM!\n',err)
+})
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
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index 0000000..4f446c7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package.json
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+{
+  "name": "@uci/websocket",
+  "version": "0.1.5",
+  "description": "JSON packet host websocket server",
+  "main": "src",
+  "scripts": {
+    "testw": "mocha -r @std/esm test/*.test.mjs --watch --recurse --watch-extensions mjs",
+    "test": "mocha -r @std/esm --timeout 10000 test/*.test.mjs",
+    "testlog": "DEBUG=true mocha -r @std/esm --timeout 10000 test/*.test.mjs",
+    "testci": "istanbul cover ./node_modules/.bin/_mocha  --report lcovonly -- -R spec --recursive && codecov || true",
+    "s": "DEBUG=true node -r @std/esm  examples/server"
+  },
+  "author": "David Kebler",
+  "license": "MIT",
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "git+https://github.com/uCOMmandIt/websocket.git"
+  },
+  "keywords": [
+    "node.js",
+    "socket",
+    "websocket",
+    "JSON",
+    "packet",
+    "serialize",
+    "named pipe",
+    "unix socket",
+    "TCP"
+  ],
+  "bugs": {
+    "url": "https://github.com/uCOMmandIt/websocket/issues"
+  },
+  "homepage": "https://github.com/uCOMmandIt/websocket#readme",
+  "@std/esm": "cjs",
+  "devDependencies": {
+    "@std/esm": "^0.22.0",
+    "chai": "^4.1.2",
+    "chai-as-promised": "^7.1.1",
+    "codecov": "^3.0.0",
+    "istanbul": "^0.4.5",
+    "mocha": "^5.0.1",
+    "nodemon": "^1.15.1"
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "@uci/logger": "0.0.1",
+    "better-try-catch": "^0.6.2",
+    "clone": "^2.1.1",
+    "death": "^1.1.0",
+    "ws": "^5.1.0"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# UComandIt Class Extenson of websocket module
+
+## What is it
+
+
+
+## TL/DR;
+
+## What's it good for
+
+## Why Bother
+
+## Getting Started
diff --git a/src/index.mjs b/src/index.mjs
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index 0000000..c87bb44
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/index.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+import Socket from './socket'
+
+export { Socket as Socket }
+export default Socket
diff --git a/src/socket.mjs b/src/socket.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f2e3b17
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/socket.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+
+import WebSocket from 'ws'
+import btc from 'better-try-catch'
+import _ON_DEATH from 'death' //this is intentionally ugly
+import clone from 'clone'
+
+import logger from '@uci/logger'
+let log = {}
+
+export default class Socket extends WebSocket.Server {
+  constructor (opts = {}) {
+    opts.host = opts.host || '0.0.0.0'
+    opts.port = opts.port || 8080
+    super(opts)
+    this.id = opts.id || opts.name || 'Websocket:'+ new Date().getTime()
+    this.opts = opts  // for use to recover from selected errors
+    //self bindings
+    this._listen = this._listen.bind(this)
+    this.create = this.create.bind(this)
+    log = logger.child(
+      {
+        repo:'uci-websocket',
+        npm:'@uci/websocket',
+        file:'src/socket.mjs',
+        class:'Socket',
+        id:this.id,
+        instance_created:new Date().getTime()
+      })
+
+  } // end constructor
+
+  async create () {
+
+    return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+
+      _ON_DEATH( async () => {
+        log.info('\nhe\'s dead jim')
+        await this._destroy()
+      })
+      process.once('SIGUSR2', async () => {
+        await this._destroy
+        process.kill(process.pid, 'SIGUSR2')
+      })
+
+      this.on('error', async (err) => {
+        log.fatal(err, 'socket server error')
+        console.error(err, 'socket server error')
+        reject(err)
+      })
+
+      this.on('listening', async () => {
+        this._listen()
+        log.info('websocket server created and listening at', this.address())
+        resolve('websocket ready and listening')
+      })
+
+    })
+
+  } // end create
+
+  registerPacketProcessor (func) {
+    this._packetProcess = func
+  }
+
+  _listen () {
+
+    this.on('connection', async (socket) => {
+      const send = this._send.bind(socket)
+      log.info('new consumer connecting')
+      socket.on('message', messageProcess.bind(this))
+
+      async function messageProcess (strPacket) {
+        log.info(' incoming packet on socket side')
+        let res = {}
+        let [err, packet] = btc(JSON.parse)(strPacket)
+        if (err) { res = {error: `Could not parse JSON: ${packet}`} }
+        else {
+          res = await this._packetProcess(clone(packet))
+          if (Object.keys(res).length === 0) res = { error: 'socket packet command function likely did not return a promise', packet:packet}
+        }
+        res._header = clone(packet._header,false) //make sure return packet has header with id in case it was removed in processing
+        delete packet._header  // remove before adding to response header as request
+        res._header.request = clone(packet,false)
+        res._header.responder = {name:this.name,instanceID:this.id}
+        res._header.socket = this.address()
+        if (!res.cmd) res.cmd = 'reply'  // by default return command is 'reply'
+        log.info(await send(res))
+      }
+
+    }) // end connected consumer
+    log.info('socket created')
+  } // end listen
+
+  async _destroy () {
+    log.info('closing down socket')
+    await this.close()
+    log.info('all connections closed....exiting')
+    process.exit()
+  }
+
+  // default packet process, just a simple echo - replace
+  async _packetProcess (packet) {
+    return new Promise(resolve => {
+      resolve(packet)
+    })
+  }
+
+  // must have a consumer socket instance bound to call this!!
+  async _send (packet) {
+    return new Promise( (resolve,reject) => {
+      if (this.readyState !== 1 ) reject (`Connection not Ready, CODE:${this.readyState}`)
+      let [err,message] = btc(JSON.stringify)(packet)
+      if (err) reject(`Could not JSON stringify: ${packet}`)
+      this.send(message)
+      resolve('sent packet', packet)
+    })
+  }
+
+} // end class
diff --git a/test/.gitignore b/test/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b049ffa
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+*.sock
+/node_modules/
diff --git a/test/sockets/.gitignore b/test/sockets/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2ccbe46
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/sockets/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+/node_modules/
diff --git a/test/sockets/tcp-process.mjs b/test/sockets/tcp-process.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5eeb46a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/sockets/tcp-process.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+export default async function (packet) {
+  packet.payload = this.opts.port +':'+packet.payload
+  return packet
+}
diff --git a/test/sockets/tcpsocket-9080.mjs b/test/sockets/tcpsocket-9080.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..af5b0a5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/sockets/tcpsocket-9080.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+import { Socket } from '../../src'
+import process from './tcp-process'
+
+let socket = new Socket({port:9080, name:'tcp socket 9080'})
+
+socket.registerPacketProcessor(process)
+;
+(async () => {
+
+  await socket.create()
+
+})().catch(err => {
+  console.error('FATAL: UNABLE TO START SYSTEM!\n',err)
+})
diff --git a/test/sockets/tcpsocket-default.mjs b/test/sockets/tcpsocket-default.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..86ef932
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/sockets/tcpsocket-default.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+import { Socket } from '../../src'
+import process from './tcp-process'
+
+let socket = new Socket({name:'tcp socket'})
+
+socket.registerPacketProcessor(process)
+
+;
+(async () => {
+
+  await socket.create()
+
+})().catch(err => {
+  console.error('FATAL: UNABLE TO START SYSTEM!\n',err)
+})
diff --git a/test/sockets/usocket-default.mjs b/test/sockets/usocket-default.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3de8d32
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/sockets/usocket-default.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+import { Socket } from '../../src'
+
+let socket = new Socket({path:true,name:'default-unix-socket'})
+
+;
+(async () => {
+  await socket.create()
+
+})().catch(err => {
+  console.error('FATAL: UNABLE TO START SYSTEM!\n',err)
+})
diff --git a/test/sockets/usocket.mjs b/test/sockets/usocket.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b4bac21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/sockets/usocket.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+import { Socket } from '../../src'
+
+const USOCKET = 'usocket'
+
+let socket = new Socket({path:USOCKET,name:'default-unix-socket'})
+
+socket.test = 'at socket => '
+
+socket.registerPacketProcessor(async function (packet) {
+  return new Promise((resolve) => {
+    packet.payload = 'overwrite default processor from instance '+ this.test + packet.payload
+    resolve(packet)
+  })
+})
+
+;
+(async () => {
+
+  await socket.create()
+
+})().catch(err => {
+  console.error('FATAL: UNABLE TO START SYSTEM!\n',err)
+})
diff --git a/test/tcp.test.mjs b/test/tcp.test.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..15510a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/tcp.test.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+import { spawn } from 'child_process'
+import chai from 'chai'
+import chaiAsPromised from 'chai-as-promised'
+import btc from 'better-try-catch'
+chai.use(chaiAsPromised)
+const expect = chai.expect
+
+import { Consumer } from '../src'
+
+let tcpsocket_default = {}
+let tcpsocket_9080 = {}
+
+describe('Connects and Processes a payload in a JSON packet via TCP Socket', function(){
+
+  before(async function(){
+    tcpsocket_default = spawn('node',['-r', '@std/esm', './test/sockets/tcpsocket-default'])
+    tcpsocket_default.stdout.on('data', function(buf) {
+      console.log('[Socket]', String(buf))
+    })
+
+    tcpsocket_9080 = spawn('node',['-r', '@std/esm', './test/sockets/tcpsocket-9080'])
+    tcpsocket_9080.stdout.on('data', function(buf) {
+      console.log('[Socket]', String(buf))
+    })
+
+  })
+
+  after(async function(){
+    tcpsocket_default.kill()
+    tcpsocket_9080.kill()
+  })
+
+  it('with default host and port', async function () {
+    let tcpconsumer_default = new Consumer({name:'tcpconsumer'})
+
+    let [err] = await btc(tcpconsumer_default.connect)()
+    if (err) {
+      console.log('unable to connect to socket to start test', tcpconsumer_default.port)
+      process.kill(process.pid, 'SIGTERM')
+    }
+
+    tcpconsumer_default.registerPacketProcessor(async function (packet) {
+      return new Promise((resolve) => {
+        packet.payload = packet.payload +':local'
+        resolve(packet)})
+    })
+
+    let packet = {payload:'tcp payload'}
+    let res = await tcpconsumer_default.send(packet)
+    expect(res.payload).to.equal('8080:tcp payload:local')
+
+  }) // end tcp socket test
+
+  it('with alternate port, and registered consumer processor', async function () {
+
+    let tcpconsumer_9080 = new Consumer({port:9080, name:'tcp-consumer-9080'})
+
+
+    let [err] = await btc(tcpconsumer_9080.connect)()
+    if (err) {
+      console.log('unable to connect to socket to start test', tcpconsumer_9080.port)
+      process.kill(process.pid, 'SIGTERM')
+    }
+
+    tcpconsumer_9080.registerPacketProcessor(async function (packet) {
+      return new Promise((resolve) => {
+        packet.payload = packet.payload +':local'
+        resolve(packet)})
+    })
+
+    let packet = {payload:'tcp payload'}
+    let res = await tcpconsumer_9080.send(packet)
+    expect(res.payload).to.equal('9080:tcp payload:local')
+
+  }) // end tcp socket 2 test
+
+
+}) // end describe
diff --git a/test/usocket-default.test.mjs b/test/usocket-default.test.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..001f11b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/usocket-default.test.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+import { spawn } from 'child_process'
+import chai from 'chai'
+import chaiAsPromised from 'chai-as-promised'
+import btc from 'better-try-catch'
+chai.use(chaiAsPromised)
+const expect = chai.expect
+
+import { Consumer } from '../src'
+
+const SOCKET_FILE = 'usocket-default'
+
+let consumer = new Consumer({path:true,name:'unix-consumer'})
+let consumer2 = new Consumer({path:true, name:'unix-consumer2'})
+
+let socket = {}
+
+describe('Connects and Processes a payload via Unix Socket using JSON packet with defaults', function(){
+
+  before(async function(){
+    socket = spawn('node',['-r', '@std/esm', './test/sockets/'+SOCKET_FILE])
+    socket.stdout.on('data', function(buf) {
+      console.log('[Socket]', String(buf))
+    })
+  })
+
+  after(async function(){
+    socket.kill()
+  })
+
+  const TIMES = 3000
+
+  it(`Tests unix socket with default echo JSON packet procssing with ${TIMES} packets sent`, async function () {
+
+    let [err] = await btc(consumer.connect)()
+    if (err) {
+      console.log('unable to connect to socket to start test', consumer.path)
+      process.kill(process.pid, 'SIGTERM')
+    }
+
+    consumer.registerPacketProcessor(async function (packet) {
+      return new Promise((resolve) => {
+        packet.times += 1
+        if (packet.times === TIMES)  packet.payload = 'local1:'+packet.payload
+        resolve(packet)})
+    })
+
+
+    let packet = {payload:'payload', times:0}
+    for (let i = 1; i <= TIMES; i++) {
+      packet = await consumer.send(packet)
+    }
+    expect(packet.payload+':'+packet.times).to.equal('local1:payload:'+TIMES)
+
+  }) // end unix socket test
+
+
+  it(`unix socket with two consumers alternating packets, ${TIMES} packets each and local processing`, async function () {
+
+
+    let [err] = await btc(consumer2.connect)()
+    if (err) {
+      console.log('unable to connect to socket to start test', consumer.path)
+      process.kill(process.pid, 'SIGTERM')
+    }
+
+    consumer2.registerPacketProcessor(async function (packet) {
+      return new Promise((resolve) => {
+        packet.times += 1
+        if (packet.times === TIMES)  packet.payload = 'local2:'+packet.payload
+        resolve(packet)})
+    })
+
+    let packet = {consumer:1, payload:'payload', times:-1}
+    for (let i = 0; i < TIMES; i++) {
+      packet = await consumer.send(packet)
+      if (packet.times === TIMES) packet.times = 1
+      packet = await consumer2.send(packet)
+    }
+    expect(packet.payload+':'+packet.times).to.equal('local2:local1:payload:'+TIMES)
+
+  }) // end unix socket test
+
+}) // end describe
diff --git a/test/usocket.test.mjs b/test/usocket.test.mjs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..51d7341
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/usocket.test.mjs
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+import { spawn } from 'child_process'
+import chai from 'chai'
+import chaiAsPromised from 'chai-as-promised'
+import btc from 'better-try-catch'
+chai.use(chaiAsPromised)
+const expect = chai.expect
+
+import { Consumer } from '../src'
+
+const SOCKET_FILE = 'usocket'
+
+let consumer = new Consumer({path:SOCKET_FILE,name:'unix-consumer'})
+
+// const delay = time => new Promise(res=>setTimeout(()=>res(),time))
+
+let socket = {}
+
+describe('Connects and Processes a payload via Unix Socket using JSON packet with alt processor', function(){
+
+  before(async function(){
+    socket = spawn('node',['-r', '@std/esm', './test/sockets/'+SOCKET_FILE])
+    socket.stdout.on('data', function(buf) {
+      console.log('[Socket]', String(buf))
+    })
+  })
+
+  after(async function(){
+    socket.kill()
+  })
+
+  it('Tests alternate JSON packet procssing at socket and consumer', async function () {
+
+    let [err] = await btc(consumer.connect)()
+    if (err) {
+      console.log('unable to connect to socket to start test', consumer.path)
+      process.kill(process.pid, 'SIGTERM')
+    }
+
+    consumer.registerPacketProcessor(async function (packet) {
+      return new Promise((resolve) => {
+        packet.payload = 'local:'+packet.payload
+        resolve(packet)})
+    })
+    let packet = { payload:'payload'}
+    let res = await consumer.send(packet)
+    expect(res.payload).to.equal('local:overwrite default processor from instance at socket => payload')
+
+
+  }) // end unix socket test
+
+}) // end describe