First of all, I'd look into sockjs if I were you. I used socket.io for
years and started having trouble. Sockjs is simpler and more robust.
Node has a very simple way to spawn a process and get the results. Look up
exec in the docs under child processes. You just do `exec cmd,
function(err, stdout, stderr){}`. Easy peasy. No pipes needed.
On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Matthew Sudol <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm new to nodeJS but I'm having a lot of fun with tutorials and examples
> and learning all sorts of fun new things I can do. One thing I want to try
> just for the sake of doing it, I have no real application in mind at the
> moment is this:
>
> client (web browser) -> connects to node app, with socket.io -> spawns
> child process that runs an application on the host -> application sends
> message back to node app (unix sockets?) -> node app returns message to the
> client that spawned the process -> client and application are now sending
> and receiving messages to each other.
>
> In this application the "app" could be something as simple as a bash
> script that just echoes back whatever messages was sent from the browser as
> part of a form input.
>
> I've got a lot of sample code mashed together and I'm getting close to
> hacking something of my own together, I guess I'd just like to see what/how
> other people would suggest doing this. I'm having the most trouble with the
> child process, and sending messages back to the specific client.
>
> Thanks!
>
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