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Bidirectional and low-latency communication for every platform

27 mentions on Hacker News by 26 people: 5 stories, 22 comments · first 2011-10-13 · latest 2024-06-20

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  1. …It's communicating via Socket.io which implies the backend is running the reference nodejs server: https://github.com/socketio/socket.io
    comment by deaddodo · 2021-06-01 · in Virtual deck of cards using just a browser
  2. …It's by no means amazing code (I hacked it together quickly in my spare time), but it uses https://github.com/socketio/socket.io for real-time client-server communication. It's a relatively simple library to build on top of. As for the…
    comment by paladin314159 · 2020-04-05 · in Ask HN: What are you learning?
  3. …WS support on the second half of 2009, right as node was gearing up. Some artifacts from that era: https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/blob/5518f8cb2c4125128... https://robots.thoughtbot.com/real-time-online-activity-moni...…
    comment by ricardobeat · 2018-09-18 · in Mojolicious 8.0 released: Perl real-time web framework
  4. The initial commit for socket.io was actually on March 17 2010. https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/commit/c8edad861a1b920...
    comment by kraih · 2018-09-18 · in Mojolicious 8.0 released: Perl real-time web framework
  5. The socket.io example server is 6 lines: https://github.com/socketio/socket.io A polling loop is 4-5? I guess that's everything minus the WEB Gui.
    comment by forgotpwtomain · 2016-08-03 · in Show HN: Heartbeat – Transform REST Endpoints to Streaming APIs
  6. …VC funding for an open source project. The most surprising example of this for me is Socket.io ( https://github.com/socketio/socket.io ) - This is a hugely popular open source project; but it was never able to get funding on its own merit…
    comment by jondubois · 2016-01-16 · in Open-source infrastructure is not venture-backable
  7. Looks like the demo hasn't been update to use io.engine.clientsCount https://github.com/socketio/socket.io/blob/master/examples/c... Maybe make a pull request?
    comment by hackerboos · 2015-10-19 · in Ask HN: Why Socket.io still don't work properly?
  8. …else notice that Automattic (the wordpress company) now owns the github account for Socket.io? ( https://github.com/Automattic/socket.io/ ) As well as mongoose, kue, expect.js and others... when and why did this happen?
    comment by juliangregorian · 2015-04-13 · in Socket.IO C++
  9. Have you guys dealt with the 3-year clustering bug? https://github.com/Automattic/socket.io/issues/438 Would be pretty hesitant to use it until there's some sort of closure on this.
    comment by woah · 2014-05-28 · in Introducing Socket.io 1.0
  10. We also do had a memory leak because of socket.io 0.9.6 take a look at this discussion https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io/issues/1303#issuecom...
    comment by feronull · 2014-03-20 · in HN Plays 2048
  11. This epic issue: https://github.com/learnboost/socket.io/issues/438
    comment by woah · 2014-03-20 · in HN Plays 2048
  12. …years old. For 3 years without a fix, you'll have been able to DDOS your own server with socket.io: https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io/issues/438
    comment by andypants · 2014-03-01 · in Npm's Self-Signed Certificate is No More
  13. …has a `RedisStore` that you can use on loadbalancing setups without sticky sessions (like Heroku): https://github.com/LearnBoost/Socket.IO/wiki/Configuring-Soc...
    comment by friism · 2013-10-08 · in Heroku WebSockets Now in Public Beta
  14. …delivered as chunks, with a few chunks per request that don't require long connections [2]. [1] https://github.com/LearnBoost/Socket.IO/wiki/Configuring-Soc... [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_Live_Streaming
    comment by yid · 2013-06-03 · in Switched away from App Engine, couldn't be happier
  15. It does in fact support gzip ( see: https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io/wiki/Configuring-Soc... ), but there's an outstanding issue with spawning the gzip process ( see: https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io/issues/932#issuecomm...…
    comment by martindale · 2012-10-26 · in A Node.js speed dilemma: AJAX or Socket.IO?
  16. …were used. io.configure(ENV, function(){ io.set('transports', ['websocket']); }); more here: https://github.com/LearnBoost/Socket.IO/wiki/Configuring-Soc... Also, Firefox version would be nice to know.
    comment by biscarch · 2012-10-26 · in A Node.js speed dilemma: AJAX or Socket.IO?
  17. It is not actually limited to Node. https://github.com/learnboost/socket.io/wiki Though some of these libs do tend to lag in version support.
    comment by chrisduesing · 2012-09-24 · in Websockets 101
  18. …their list is exhaustive but it features most major personal firewalls out there. Have a look at https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io/wiki/Socket.IO-and-f... , it's no reading of joy. I’ve deployed quite large installations of…
    comment by cgbystrom · 2012-07-30 · in Integrating WebSockets in Netty
  19. …I've heard of tornadio2; it turns out there is a list of other socket.io server implementations at https://github.com/learnboost/socket.io/wiki/
    comment by sciurus · 2012-04-23 · in Ginger Tech Stack (Realtime + Django)
  20. …that Mobile Safari still crashes if you have a proxy server enabled and try to open a WebSocket: https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io/issues/193 Pretty annoying.
    comment by aapl · 2012-03-10 · in Tether Launches HTML5-Based iPhone Tethering Solution
  21. …now. Well, you can round robin if you use the Redis store but you'll run into inefficiencies with https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io/issues/686 . I'll do a bit more coverage on other SIO deployment-related issues once I get the…
    comment by mixu · 2012-01-19 · in The Trello Tech Stack
  22. Socket.io: https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io/issues/686 MongoDB (on FreeBSD): https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-3927 Redis: https://github.com/antirez/redis/issues/91 . . . are a few.
    comment by dodger · 2012-01-19 · in The Trello Tech Stack