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HOW TO GET YOUR SANITY
BACK WITH SOCKET.IO

2.
YO!
I am Danielius Visockas

3.
I had to build a chat

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Realtime was a problem
At least for me

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Because I’m a ruby developer.

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Problem?
✘ Polling
✘ Long polling
✘ Very long polling
✘ Web Sockets
✘ SSE
✘ Just use some service

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No

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socket.io
with node.js to the rescue

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Socket.io abstracts realtime like
jQuery does for Ajax

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Supported transports
✘ Web Socket
✘ Adobe Flash Sockets
✘ Long polling
✘ Multipart streaming
✘ JSONP Polling
✘ Forever iframe

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Supported browsers
✘ IE 5.5+
✘ Safari 3+
✘ Chrome 4+
✘ Firefox 3+
✘ Opera 10+
✘ iSafari
✘ Android WebKit
✘ WebOs Webkit

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It has friends

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redis
Ruby server node &
socket.io
PGsql

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Redis PostgreSQL

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Client code

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Caveats
✘ Security
✘ Adds complexity

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Thank you
Any questions?
You can find me at
@dvisockas
For more info visit http://socket.io