I'm planning on building a website where you can play (turn-based) games with other people. I need to be able to communicate which moves have been made. I think push-notifications are best suited for this. I've read a little bit about node.js; is that the way to go? Or are there other libraries that will make it easy to do this sort of thing?
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1socket.io and dnode will help you with node.js (I recommend dnode, it builds ontop of socket.io)Raynos– Raynos2011-11-03 01:31:34 +00:00Commented Nov 3, 2011 at 1:31
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There are a number of solutions with a number of different technologies. Node.js and socket.io is just one popular solution.
If you are a Ruby developer then Faye (which also has a node.js version) or juggernaut are options. For .NET there is SignalR or XSockets. For Java there's jwebsocket or WaterSpout Server. There are many more too.
I'm maintaining a list of realtime web technologies which will hopefully be a good starting point.
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mpen
why does the xsocket video have 'hey there delilah' as the bg song?? haha.. i'm interested in .net. looking into these now. thanks
This is exactly what WebSockets is a good use case for. But you need a fallback for browsers without WebSocket support, so use Socket.io, it has good support for Node.js.
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mpen
That webpage is pretty sparse...what exactly is its relationship to node.js? As I understand it... node.js is both a server and a library?
Jonas
@Mark: Yes, it's a communication library. You need the client library and a server part. It has support for multiple server languages, but I think it's most popular and has best support on the Node.js platform.
I´m one of the developers on XSockets.NET, (as Phil says) there are many great solutions out there. I recommend that you try a few and then decide what to use.
If you want to checkout XSocket.NET, just throw any questions at us and we´ll help. Contact info on the XSockets webpage
Regards Uffe
