Experimenting with Node.js

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Post by jkreeftmeijer » Mon, Jul 26, 2010, 3:54 PM UTC

Experimenting with Node.js
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Re: Experimenting with Node.js

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Jul 26, 2010, 4:41 PM UTC

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Re: Experimenting with Node.js

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Post by CitizenKane » Mon, Jul 26, 2010, 4:58 PM UTC

Extremely cool demo. It would be interesting to see this applied to analytics, so you could see exactly what people are doing on your site in real time. Although that would also be a bit creepy.

Re: Experimenting with Node.js

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Post by JakeSc » Mon, Jul 26, 2010, 5:26 PM UTC

I am thoroughly impressed, and excited for the prospect of unimaginably awesome web applications. I do have a few thoughts:

- How easy would this be to implement in another event-driven server, such as Tornado?

- I have an identifiable "mouse ID" in this app. Is this secure? Surely the security aspects of web sockets have been key in their design, but I am left with a bit of uneasiness with my browser opening a TCP connection to another server. I believe WebSockets will pave the way for a whole new class of web-based attacks, and possibly even highly mobile worms.

Re: Experimenting with Node.js

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Post by Joeboy » Mon, Jul 26, 2010, 5:29 PM UTC

Please could you move your cursors out of the way? I'm trying to read the text.

Edit: This lame comment is the highest rated here? You disappoint me.

Re: Experimenting with Node.js

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Post by ppplll » Mon, Jul 26, 2010, 5:31 PM UTC

It would be interesting to hear from the author how the server is handling HackerNews traffic

Re: Experimenting with Node.js

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Post by jkreeftmeijer » Mon, Jul 26, 2010, 5:32 PM UTC

Joeboy wrote: post #5

Please could you move your cursors out of the way? I'm trying to read the text. Edit: This lame comment is the highest rated here? You disappoint me.

There's a "disable" button in the yellow box. That'll make them go away completely. :)

Re: Experimenting with Node.js

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Post by MisterWebz » Mon, Jul 26, 2010, 5:33 PM UTC

I'm wondering if Javascript will start being heavily used server-side? Would it be wise to start learning JS and how to use Node.js or is it absolutely not suitable for production use?

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Post by kylemathews » Mon, Jul 26, 2010, 5:38 PM UTC

The cursors looked disturbingly like flies. Pretty insane demo.

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Post by Kilimanjaro » Mon, Jul 26, 2010, 5:40 PM UTC

Make it funnier, show us a maze and people trying to solve it in real time. Replace the mouse pointer with a colored token and constrain its movement to the walls of the maze.