Looks great Arnout - having gone through the wringer with WebSockets too it's good to see someone trying really hard to solve those problems.
One thing that's missing from this (even with primus-rooms) is arbitrary client-side created channels. I wrote about how I solved that with SockJS here: http://baudehlo.wordpress.com/2013/05/07/sockjs-multiple-channels-and-why-i-dumped-socket-io/ On Mon, Jul 8, 2013 at 3:35 PM, 3rdEden <[email protected]> wrote: > Ohai, > > I'm pleased to announce the release of Primus. Primus is a server and > client abstraction on top of real-time servers/transports such as > Socket.IO, SockJS, Engine.IO etc. It allows you to easily switch between > servers with changing just one single line of code. There is no need to > completely rewrite your applications when your not satisfied with the > underlaying real-time server or when it completely breaks down when you're > hit by HackerNews or are getting Techcrunched. (trust me, this happens to > people a lot). > > Some highlights: > > - Supports 5 different real-time servers out of the box: Socket.IO, > Engine.IO, SockJS, Browserchannel and pure WebSockets. > - It has a stream compatible interface for the the client and the server. > - Supports randomised exponential back-off to prevent DDOS'ing your server > when you restart. > - Comes with a client API that works on Node.js as well on the client. > - It fixes bugs in the above mentioned servers. > - Comes with the ability to also change the message encoders and decoders > on the fly. If JSON encoding is to heavy for you > could switch to msgpack, bison or maybe JSONH. > > It doesn't matter if your building a real-time server, or implementing a > module that uses real-time. Primus is here to save the day ;). As for the > future of the project. I'll be adding additional fixes to Primus to prevent > some of the real-time bugs that i've been talking about at conferences: > https://speakerdeck.com/3rdeden . Making Primus not just wrapper around > this frameworks but also better than these libraries them selfs. > > The project is available on Github: > > https://github.com/3rd-Eden/primus > > And a small announcement post: > > https://medium.com/the-build/22af5c94a922 > > So tell me what you think about it, love to hear the input of the > community. > > Thanks, > > Arnout > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
