NowJS Real-time Trials: Build a 2-week hack, win sweet prizes

Re:NowJS Real-time Trials: Build a 2-week hack, win sweet pr... by sausagefeet on Friday September 16, 2011 @09:38PM (#3006950)

Why the hell is it so hard for me to determine wtf NowJS does?! All I can tell is it's a framework on top of Node and I can build a chat server in a few lines of code...

EDIT: Ok sheesh, I had to go to nowjs.com's frontpage to see it. The Docs page was less clear, which was the most obvious button to hit from the real time page.

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Re:NowJS Real-time Trials: Build a 2-week hack, win sweet pr... by dshankar on Friday September 16, 2011 @10:17PM (#3007028)

Ah thanks for the feedback! We'll work on a better designed website to be more clear.

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Re:NowJS Real-time Trials: Build a 2-week hack, win sweet pr... by michaelbuckbee on Saturday September 17, 2011 @12:02AM (#3007200)

I had the same issue, you might want to consider adding another top level menu item 'about' with a summary of what nowjs is and a quick overview of the how and why.

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Re:NowJS Real-time Trials: Build a 2-week hack, win sweet pr... by jinushaun on Saturday September 17, 2011 @10:14AM (#3008050)

I agree. The website needs an "about" link in the top menu because the home/index page may not always provide that explanation, so I'm not necessarily going to click on the "nowjs" logo to go home. Fortunately, the nowjs home page does explain what it is and "about" can simply point to the index.

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Re:NowJS Real-time Trials: Build a 2-week hack, win sweet pr... by sausagefeet on Friday September 16, 2011 @10:35PM (#3007063)

Great! Sorry for the snark. I've got the rage of a dragon inside me.

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Re:NowJS Real-time Trials: Build a 2-week hack, win sweet pr... by wavephorm on Friday September 16, 2011 @10:43PM (#3007074)

It looks like they took Socket.io and added an RPC call to it, and called it NowJS.

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