Really Real-time

By Jonathan Lam on 01/02/16

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I was experimenting around with Node.js, a powerful JavaScript library that I had little understanding of. This was because I had heard it had certain websocket back-end capabilities that I had wanted for real-time data updates. In this, the server (the back-end) can send data back to the client (the front-end, or browser), which is a powerful tool that I've never encountered.

So I played around with it a little bit, and I eventually made a little real-time chat program with Socket.io, which builds a websocket server-side. See my demo at Realtime Chatting.