Comments on: Server Side Javascript Continued – Node.js (plus example)

By: Rob Searles » First Steps with Node.js: exciting stuff

Rob Searles » First Steps with Node.js: exciting stuff — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 17:47:30 +0000

[...] Just found another good blog post, this time with an example for Long Polling. AKPC_IDS += "231,"; If you liked this post, please [...]

By: john

john — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 03:58:58 +0000

Sweet! That works

Thanks britg, very fun stuff! I'm planning to build a small comet server using node.js

Best,
John

By: britg

britg — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:39:41 +0000

Hey John - from your console output, it looks like you are making requests to the wrong script.

"example.js:28 ..."

The name of the script, if you used the same copy from the github repo, should be 'gamelobby.js'

Let me know if that helps!

By: john

john — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:22:34 +0000

Hi! This example does not seem to be working with 2009.06.30 node-0.1.0.tar.gz

When I call /join?player=john then

The game lobby has started!
example.js:28: TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method 'respond'
server.respond(200, players);
^

But THANKS for putting this blog post out there. Really exciting!
Best,
John

By: britg

britg — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:47:44 +0000

Very cool, will watch its progress on github I like the Sinatra-esque lightweight approach.

By: TJ Holowaychuk

TJ Holowaychuk — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:28:25 +0000

check out http://github.com/visionmedia/express/tree/master
might like , I just started it but contribution would be great, building a framework on node.js is sexxxxy

By: britg

britg — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:34:49 +0000

True, I plan to make some updates, the first of which is to use POST on the /join URL and enforce it. Also, I will implement a reaper process to clear stale joins.

By: Hagen

Hagen — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:11:29 +0000

Nice article!

But a very bad idea to show HTTP example code completely ignoring request verbs. People will copy that :-/ And don't make people join on GET, use PUT to join, DELETE to unjoin.