Duostack Socket.IO Demo

http://github.com/tfe/duostack-socket.io-demo

This is a super-simple demo app of basic Socket.IO usage on the Duostack Node.js hosting platform.

It simply displays the time on the server, updated live every second. If you see the time appear and continuously update, then it's working properly.

The code is very short and self-explanatory, but essentially:

1. We create a server to serve the initial page and to which we can attach Socket.IO.
2. On every request we just send down the contents of demo.html, which is a little HTML document containing a little markup and the Socket.IO client-side script and configuration.
3. We also attach a Socket.IO listener to the server and set it up to send down the current time on new connections, and every one second thereafter.

This demo app is deployed on Duostack at http://socketiodemo.duostack.net/, so you can see it running and try it out for yourself.

WebSocket-only Branch

Check out the websocket-only branch for an example with both the client and the server set to use only the WebSocket transport. You wouldn't want to configure Socket.IO like this in a real app, but it's provided for demonstration purposes.

The WebSocket-only branch is deployed at http://websocketdemo.duostack.net:9980/.

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© 2011 Todd Eichel

Licensed under the MIT license