You are right. It took me quite some time to get there and I did it only because I was looking exactly for something like this. My advice would be to start wit

You are right. It took me quite some time to get there and I did it only because I was looking exactly for something like this. My advice would be to start with only the js part in the browser, at it's the easiest piece to understand. You can use the demo crossbar instances to avoid installing it. This is why this tech need a framework on top of it. Right now it's quite bare bone. A lot like nodejs when it started.