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src/content/docs/modules/generator/interval.md

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+---
+title: Interval
+sidebar:
+    order: 2
+---
+The interval module emits a message at a specified duration
+
+- **type**: `gen.interval`
+- **params**:
+    - **duration**: time in milliseconds between messsages
+
+### Example snippet
+Emits a message every 3 seconds
+```
+- id: every3Secs
+  type: gen.interval
+    params:
+      duration: 3000
+```

src/content/docs/modules/generator/timer.md

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+---
+title: Timer
+sidebar:
+    order: 1
+---
+The timer module emits only one message after a specified duration
+
+- **type**: `gen.timer`
+- **params**:
+    - **duration**: time in milliseconds to wait before emitting message
+
+### Example snippet
+Emits a message 5 seconds after the module is initialized
+```
+- id: 5secs
+  type: gen.timer
+    params:
+      duration: 5000
+```

src/content/docs/modules/network/http-client.md

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+---
+title: HTTP Client
+sidebar:
+    order: 1
+---
+The HTTP Client module emits a message contianing the response of the HTTP calls it makes.
+
+- **type**: `net.http.client`
+- **params**: no params are needed for HTTP client
+
+### Example
+```
+- id: httpSender1
+  type: net.http.client
+```

src/content/docs/modules/network/http-server.md

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+---
+title: HTTP Server
+sidebar:
+    order: 2
+---
+The HTTP server module emits a message for every HTTP request that is made to the server
+
+- **type**: `net.http.server`
+- **params**:
+    - **port**: TCP port to listen for HTTP requests on
+
+### Example
+Start an HTTP server listening on port 3000
+```
+- id: httpServer
+  type: net.http.server
+  params:
+    port: 3000
+```

src/content/docs/modules/network/tcp-client.md

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+---
+title: TCP Client
+sidebar:
+    order: 3
+---
+The TCP client module connects to TCP server and emits a message for every message it receives from the server that it connects to. Messages are determined by "framing" techniques as TCP is a stream based protocol. The module will attempt to reconnect anytime the connection is closed.
+
+- **type**: `net.tcp.client`
+- **params**:
+    - **host**: IP or FQDN to connect to
+    - **port**: TCP port to connect to
+    - **framing**: how to chunk the TCP stream into "messages"
+        - LF `\n`
+        - CR `\r`
+        - CRLF `\r\n`
+        - [SLIP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Line_Internet_Protocol)
+
+### Example
+Open a TCP connection to `127.0.0.1` port 8888, any incoming data will be split on line-feed (`\n`)
+```
+- id: tcpClient
+  type: net.tcp.client
+  params:
+    host: 127.0.0.1
+    port: 8888
+    framing: LF
+```

src/content/docs/modules/network/tcp-server.md

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+---
+title: TCP Server
+sidebar:
+    order: 4
+---
+The TCP server module emits a message for every message it receives from clients that connect to it. Messages are determined by "framing" techniques as TCP is a stream based protocol.
+
+- **type**: `net.tcp.server`
+- **params**:
+    - **ip**: (optional) IP address to bind the TCP server to, if left out it will listen on all interfaces
+    - **port**: TCP port to listen on
+    - **framing**: how to chunk of the incoming TCP stream into "messages"
+        - LF `\n`
+        - CR `\r`
+        - CRLF `\r\n`
+        - [SLIP](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_Line_Internet_Protocol)
+
+### Example
+Start a TCP server listening on port 8888, incoming data will be split on line-feed (`\n`)
+```
+- id: tcpServer
+  type: net.tcp.server
+  params:
+    ip: 127.0.0.1
+    port: 8888
+    framing: LF
+```

src/content/docs/modules/network/udp-client.md

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+---
+title: UDP Client
+sidebar:
+    order: 5
+---
+The UDP client module sends messages to a the configured `host` and `port`. This module does not receive any message and so using it as an `input` to a [route](/concepts/routes) would be pointless.
+
+- **type**: `net.udp.client`
+- **params**:
+    - **host**: IP or FQDN to send message to
+    - **port**: UDP port to send messages to
+
+### Example
+setup up a UDP client that will send UDP packets to `127.0.0.1` on port 8888
+```
+- id: udpClient
+  type: net.udp.client
+  params:
+    host: 127.0.0.1
+    port: 8888
+```

src/content/docs/modules/network/udp-server.md

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+---
+title: UDP Server
+sidebar:
+    order: 6
+---
+The UDP server module emits a message for every incoming UDP datagram.
+
+- **type**: `net.udp.server`
+- **params**:
+    - **ip**: (optional) IP address to bind the UDP server to, if left out it will listen on all interfaces
+    - **port**: UDP port to listen on
+
+### Example
+Start a UDP server listening on port 8888 and only on `127.0.0.1`
+```
+- id: udpServer
+  type: net.udp.server
+  params:
+    ip: 127.0.0.1
+    port: 8888
+```