Real-time web
2012-10-02 16:20:04.53403+02 by
Dan Lyke
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webRTC.io is an abstraction layer which attempts to simplify webRTC, which is:
... is a free, open project that enables web browsers with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple Javascript APIs.
As far as I can tell, this also means peer-to-peer browser capabilities. Got pointed to this after I wrote a little thing about Meteor Server up to garner some discussion on the Chugalug mailing list. And I'll toss that message in the comments...
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#Comment Re: made: 2012-10-02 16:21:52.246294+02 by:
Dan Lyke
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I just discovered the Meteor web server, and am looking for cool things
it can do.
Meteor is a server you run to push real-time (for second or so meanings
of "real time") data to web pages. So, for instance, if you were
writing the next Twitter, you'd create a web page that loaded a Meteor
server JavaScript snippet, tell that JavaScript to listen on a channel,
and then you'd connect to the control port of the server and send it
updates for channels.
So for my test app I wrote a little HTML page that had an input box, a
submit button, and a <ul id="messages"></ul>.
My submit button takes the input box contents and sends it off to a CGI.
The CGI opens a Perl IO::Socket::INET stream to the control port, prints
ADDMESSAGE streamname [the contents of the text box]
which then causes Meteor to send an event out to my HTML page, which
has a JavaScript snippet that:
$("#messages").append("<li>" + data + "</li>")
Poof. Instant chat server.
Their demo is little twinkly stars dependent on the IP address of the
server that's accessing their web page currently.
A little JSON and some database storage, and more stream names, and
you've got a small Twitter...
This thing is kinda cool.
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