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Hookbox: Real-time Web with WebSocket/Comet and Webhooks

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Re: Hookbox: Real-time Web with WebSocket/Comet and Webhooks

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Post by clemesha »

Very cool stuff, hopefully.

To quote the beginning of the "What about my web app?" section

  This ten step tutorial shows how a client can interact with Hookbox. 
  Adding web app integration is also trivial.
I can tell you, combining a real-time component with your existing web app framework is not trivial; hopefully Hookbox might change this. In general, a framework that eases this pain is very needed.

I experimented with these ideas with my project "Hotdot" (http://github.com/clemesha/hotdot), which is mostly a "big example", not a framework or whatever.

Hotdot uses Orbited (which was originally authored by Michael Carter, and who is also the author of Hookbox). Michael did contact me with the Hookbox project a while back, and it looks as though he has made significant progress on the project since.

Re: Hookbox: Real-time Web with WebSocket/Comet and Webhooks

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Post by heyadayo »

Short Version: Hookbox is a message queue built specifically for browser clients. Whenever a client connects, subscribes, publishes, etc. Hookbox makes a Webhook request (HTTP callback) to obtain permission for the action from the web application (PHP, Django, etc.) All server-side app logic therefore remains within the web framework/language.

Re: Hookbox: Real-time Web with WebSocket/Comet and Webhooks

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Post by fizz972 »

zitterbewegung wrote: post #5

Right now I'm getting the error "Error establishing database connection" are they being overloaded?

Seems so, at least it's the database which failed and not the web server. A web server failure on a site covering real-time web servers news would be too weird.

Re: Hookbox: Real-time Web with WebSocket/Comet and Webhooks

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Post by asnyder »

clemesha wrote: post #2

Very cool stuff, hopefully. To quote the beginning of the "What about my web app?" section This ten step tutorial shows how a client can interact with Hookbox. Adding web app integration is also trivial. I can tell you, combining a real-time component with your existing web app framework is not trivial; hopefully Hookbox might change this. In general, a framework that eases this pain is very needed. I experimented wi…

The NOLOH PHP Framework includes Comet out of the box without any work or configuration. A brief video on this can be found from the Confoo Web Conference this past March, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r0FR0Dx4zE.

This includes support for streams, long-polling, and short-polling. Like everything else in NOLOH, this comes out of the box for all browsers.

A dedicated comet section will be added to noloh.com later in the summer with more examples, demos, and whitepapers.

Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of NOLOH

Re: Hookbox: Real-time Web with WebSocket/Comet and Webhooks

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Post by jacobolus »

asnyder wrote: post #7
clemesha wrote: post #2

Very cool stuff, hopefully. To quote the beginning of the "What about my web app?" section This ten step tutorial shows how a client can interact with Hookbox. Adding web app integration is also trivial. I can tell you, combining a real-time component with your existing web app framework is not trivial; hopefully Hookbox might change this. In general, a framework that eases this pain is very needed. I experimented wi…

The NOLOH PHP Framework includes Comet out of the box without any work or configuration. A brief video on this can be found from the Confoo Web Conference this past March, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r0FR0Dx4zE . This includes support for streams, long-polling, and short-polling. Like everything else in NOLOH, this comes out of the box for all browsers. A dedicated comet section will be added to noloh.com later i…

That’s just targeted at users who plan to use Noloh and PHP to write their applications, right?

Re: Hookbox: Real-time Web with WebSocket/Comet and Webhooks

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Post by revicon »

Saw a demo of this at the last jquery meetup, very cool stuff, and the guy demoing it actually coded a live chat app from scratch so everyone could see how its done. The fact that they also have a hosted solution for people to try hacking against gives them a big a+ in my book. Great job.
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