My Node.js app, or, a simple explanation of asynchronicity and non-blocking IO

Post by wisty » Fri, Mar 26, 2010, 3:33 PM UTC

maryrosecook wrote: post #3

giu wrote: post #2

Nice article, and an interesting combination of technologies! Maybe it's a little bit off topic, but I had a look at http://streethoarding.com/ to see the thing in action. I like the idea and execution (it runs pretty fast; very very simple design; would be interesting to see how well it runs with a huge amount of visitors) and as curious as I am (especially regarding security), the first thing I entered was some Jav…

Yes, HTML and script tags are left as is. People are in the middle of abusing this right now. My friend has just pointed out that the whole of jQuery is at everyone's disposal, too.

Post by nishith » Sun, Mar 28, 2010, 11:39 AM UTC

matthijs wrote: post #12

Checking out your code it looks like you're just polling (not longpolling)? Instead of just holding the connection open and waiting for a new message you pass the latest message and let the client reconnect. I use node like this (really simplified but still): http://blog.dispostable.com/instant-mail-notifications-using...