Websockets and more: awesome node.js npm modules we use every day

Posted by niall_ohiggins on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @01:56PM
from the blog.beyondfog.com dept.

http://blog.beyondfog.com/websockets-and-more-20-awesome-node-js-npm-modules-we-use-every-day/

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Re:Websockets and more: awesome node.js npm modules we use e... by wendall911 on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @08:41PM (#3855802)

"Websockets: Everyone uses socket.io and for good reason."

This is stated as a fact, but I really just think it is a case of this was the only choice for a long time. I'd like to know the reason, because I don't think there is a clear one here. Other than socket.io couples a ton of baked in functionality, what's the benefit of it over sock.js or just native websockets?

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Re:Websockets and more: awesome node.js npm modules we use e... by wensheng on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @10:30PM (#3856191)

Agreed. I use native websocket because I don't care about supporting IE<v10

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Re:Websockets and more: awesome node.js npm modules we use e... by axitanull on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @10:06PM (#3856110)

I've always wanted to use mongodb as my primary data storage due to its convenience and all.

But how it's consuming all my memory has always been a problem, at least to me. (And afaik, it's currently not possible to limit its memory usage)

Do you use a dedicated Mongodb server with huge amount of RAM for this?

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Re:Websockets and more: awesome node.js npm modules we use e... by tzaman on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @03:00PM (#3854380)

Well these guys should use node.js for their blog as well, and maybe it would not be down due to heavy HN traffic ;)

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Re:Websockets and more: awesome node.js npm modules we use e... by niall_ohiggins on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @03:05PM (#3854410)

Working on it.

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Re:Websockets and more: awesome node.js npm modules we use e... by niall_ohiggins on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @03:14PM (#3854457)

Seems to be handling the traffic better now. Sorry about that.

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Re:Websockets and more: awesome node.js npm modules we use e... by tzaman on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @03:22PM (#3854495)

Here, one karma for that. :)

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Re:Websockets and more: awesome node.js npm modules we use e... by aaronblohowiak on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @03:16PM (#3854466)

what was the issue?

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Re:Websockets and more: awesome node.js npm modules we use e... by niall_ohiggins on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @03:18PM (#3854475)

Apache max workers clamped far too low :-D

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Re:Websockets and more: awesome node.js npm modules we use e... by novalis on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @05:25PM (#3855071)

Nice stuff, thanks for the round up, this vast amount of packages coming out get out of hand or go by unnoticed easily. Got some work coming up that I may well do with node, so. Thanks.

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Re:Websockets and more: awesome node.js npm modules we use e... by tferris on Tuesday April 17, 2012 @05:28PM (#3855083)

Great idea, great post! Thanks.

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