10-minute realtime web chat

A very small yet powerful example of a real time web chat using Node, Express and Faye.

Prepare the ground

• Download and install node.js
• Install dependencies: npm install

Run

• Run the server: node server.js
• Open http://localhost:8000/client.html
• Have fun :)

Redistribution

This example was made for my lightning talk on Caipira Ágil 2012. But you can use it for your own study, or for a talk of yours if you want. You just have to give me some credit (see LICENSE for more info).

Contribute

Found a bug? Are you an expert in the field and saw a huge mistake of mine? Want to see improvements on it?

Please let me know, to help this work get better! :)

You may want to:

• send me an e-mail: panaggio.ricardo@gmail.com
• send me a tweet: @panaggio
• send me a message via github:
  1. signup and login to github
  2. go to my page on github
  3. click "Message"
• send a bug on github's issue tracker:
  1. signup and login to github
  2. go to the issue tracker
  3. click "Create Issue"
• make the changes yourself:
  1. signup and login to github
  2. go to the talk's page
  3. fork this repo: click "Fork"
  4. make your changes
  5. send a pull request.