Chatroom is up!

By Jonathan Lam on 01/09/16

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The result of my preliminary experimentation with Node.js and Socket.io has resulted in an interesting, real-time chat application!

You can visit it either at lam-node-test.herokuapp.com where it's hosted on Heroku or here at TheHomeworkLife. They both push messages towards the same server, so if you see messages on either application, it'll show up on both! It's still in real-time, and now uses FontAwesome icons that I was experimenting with before.

Note that there may be a few-second delay (a warming-up of the Node.js server) when first visiting the site for the first time. This is the result of my free hosting. It should start quickly in subsequent runs.