Introducing Socket.io 1.0

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Post by rafaelc » Wed, May 28, 2014, 5:40 PM UTC

Re: Introducing Socket.io 1.0

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Post by liamk » Wed, May 28, 2014, 5:47 PM UTC

This was a long time coming! I'm very happy to see socket.io 1.0 finally released. Pre-1.0 had some deal-breaking technical issues, such as starting with websockets and falling back to polling. I think the new approach is starting with polling and then seeing if a) websockets are supported by the current browser and b) messages sent via websocket are received by the server (a firewall might prevent this).

Re: Introducing Socket.io 1.0

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Post by EGreg » Wed, May 28, 2014, 5:49 PM UTC

Finally!! I was going to switch to naked engine.io because it can handle many more connections without going crazy. Now I can get it without changing my code. Woo hoo!

Re: Introducing Socket.io 1.0

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Post by eob » Wed, May 28, 2014, 5:54 PM UTC

Congrats Guillermo and gang!

Re: Introducing Socket.io 1.0

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Post by woah » Wed, May 28, 2014, 5:56 PM UTC

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.

Re: Introducing Socket.io 1.0

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Post by Rauchg » Wed, May 28, 2014, 5:58 PM UTC

woah wrote: post #5

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.

Please read the "Scalability" section on the blog post! This very demo is fully clustered.

Re: Introducing Socket.io 1.0

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Post by lucidrains » Wed, May 28, 2014, 6:01 PM UTC

I've since switched to SockJS for all of my projects (after struggling with memory issues in Socket.io 0.9.*). Any compelling reasons to give Socket.io another try?

Re: Introducing Socket.io 1.0

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Post by buckbova » Wed, May 28, 2014, 6:02 PM UTC

This is exactly how I've always wanted the web to work. i've spent some time with socket.io working through "nodejs in action" and I can't wait to use it for new apps.

Re: Introducing Socket.io 1.0

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Post by bedane » Wed, May 28, 2014, 6:08 PM UTC

Excellent news, looking forward to using it. socket.io is awesome !

Re: Introducing Socket.io 1.0

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Post by tlrobinson » Wed, May 28, 2014, 6:12 PM UTC

I like the separation of the transports into engine.io, however it would be even better if it exposed a standard Node.js Stream interface so that it played nicely with the growing ecosystem of Stream-related modules.

Dominic Tarr, substack, and others have been advocating this idea for awhile: https://github.com/substack/stream-handbook

Gluing together various types of streams and stream transformers is a really nice way to build certain types of applications.

Fortunately it should be easy to write a Stream compatible wrapper.