LakTEK A Sri Lankan, A Rubyist and A Web Dude

Real-time Collaborative Editing with Web Sockets, Node.js & Redis

Few months ago, I mentioned I’m developing a real-time collaborative code editor (codenamed as Realie) for my individual research project in the university. Since then I did couple of posts on the design decisions and on technologies I experimented for the project. After some excessive hacking, today I’ve got something tangible to share with you.

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Implementing Web Socket servers with Node.js

Web Sockets are one of the most interesting features included in HTML5 spec. It would open up a whole different paradigm in web application development by allowing asynchronous, long-lived connections between client and server. As Web Sockets were supported in Google Chrome’s beta release, it signaled now the time to use it in your apps.
However, […]