September 2012
Beginner
464 pages
8h 53m
English
What You’ll Learn in This Hour:
• What Socket.IO is and how you can use it
• Connect clients to a Socket.IO-enabled Node.js server
• Send data from the server to clients
• Create real-time applications
Up to this point, you have learned the fundamentals of how to create basic applications with Node.js. Socket.IO is a module for Node.js that exposes some of the things that make Node.js different from other frameworks and languages. In this hour, you see how Node.js, Socket.IO, and WebSockets can create real-time web applications—a hugely exciting possibility for web development!
Historically, the web was not designed to be dynamic. It was designed ...
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