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Re:Now.js: project and review by sthatipamala on Saturday October 29, 2011 @07:43PM (#3173153)
RPC in NowJS is achieved through function stubs. The "client function" that gets run on the server is just a stub function that tells the client to run its own version.

Code is only executed on the machine on which it was defined. There is no toString or eval going on here.

Re:Now.js: project and review by dreamdu5t on Saturday October 29, 2011 @11:39PM (#3173570)
Are there any other libraries that do this? Wouldn't this be fairly trivial to code up utilizing socket.io? Just curious as to what is unique about now.js