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title: WebSockets connection to scripting.com
url: http://scripting.com/liveblog/users/davewiner/2015/11/30/0510.html
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Last week I posted the first update on 1999.io, the software I'm using to write this blog. It's coming along well, so it's time for a second update.
This update is for the programmers, although if you're not a programmer, you're totally welcome to listen in.
It's a floor wax and a dessert topping!
Remember that old SNL skit for Shimmer that's a floor wax that's also a dessert topping? Well 1999.io is like that. It's a blogging tool, but it's also a chat application. In fact it started as a chat app, and it became a blogging app. Basically because, as you know, everything I work on eventually becomes a blogging app. It's what I do.
And I also like to create developer toolkits to show others how they can plug into my work, and that's what I'd like to show off today.
A demo app
Here's a web page that contains a JavaScript app that's designed to run in the browser.
It opens a WebSockets connection with the 1999.io server, asking to listen to all the updates for the scripting channel.
When I post something new on this blog, or someone posts or updates a comment, you'll be notified, and will get a copy of the JSON source for the post.
You can try it out by posting a comment under this post. Modify it whenever you want to see something happen in the demo app.
Notes
- The code is running in the browser, but it could just as easily run on a server, in Node.js.
- The thing to observer is how instantaneous it is (that is if everything is working, knock wood).
- Here's the GitHub repository containing the source.
- And here's a bookmark for the place in the code where it gets interesting.