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Try node.js in the browser
- antimatter15 16y agoSadly, it doesn't look like it comes with socket.io, but I just hacked together http://testing.jsapp.us/ http://testing.jsapp.us/ which is a sort of real-time visitor counter.
- asymmetric 16y agonice to see bespin used in the wild, and for such a cool project too!
- unwiredben 16y agoAt HP Palm, we're using Bespin as the editor for our Ares code environment for building webOS apps. See http://ares.palm.com/Ares/ http://ares.palm.com/Ares/
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- tamberg 16y agoNice! Have been waiting for that since the tragic loss of AppJet. Do you plan to provide some sort of paid hosting in order to prevent going broke due to hosting cost?
- mehi 16y agoAppJet is being hosted at http://apps.jgate.de/ http://apps.jgate.de/. We also launched Erbix a few days ago: http://www.erbix.com http://www.erbix.com http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=1938066 http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=1938066
- alkavan 16y agoNICE! wonder if you can actually use this to build a site that enables you edit it's own code form the web just like this. would like to see/develop something like this, cause if the site can work only with JavaScript, why not never exit the browser while developing it ? :)
- giantsquid 16y agoctrl-b pulls up my bookmarks, not run the code. Does it work for anybody else?
- asymmetric 16y agoworks in chrome too
- NathanKP 16y agoIt works in Safari, but that's because the Safari command for bookmarks is Option+Command+B
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- baby 16y agoworks in firefox
- alkavan 16y agoworks on chrome 7!
- obsessive1 16y agoThis looks great, gives me a good excuse to start experimenting with node.js
- tomjen3 16y agoanybody using node for their startup? I am not sure if it works for larger projects, but that opinion may well be tainted by my dislike of javascript.
- karterk 16y agoThe thing I like about node.js is that you can now pretty much write your entire web app in JS, both front end and back end. This really helps with the context switches that happens in larger projects. With mongoDB, you can pretty much use JSON throughout the application stack.
- jackfoxy 16y agoThe guys at http://stackvm.com/ http://stackvm.com/ use node.js. I was disappointed to learn javascript does not support tail recursion. Kind of makes it a 2nd class functional language.
- Swizec 16y agoYep, we're using it to run Readability server-side --> http://preona.net/2010/11/ever-wanted-arc90s-readability-as-an-api/ http://preona.net/2010/11/ever-wanted-arc90s-readability-as-... Some things are a bit less mature than one might desire, but all in all it's a pretty brilliant piece of technology and I find myself using it more and more.
- simonw 16y agoWe have some Node.js code (not yet in production) for http://lanyrd.com/ http://lanyrd.com/ for interacting with the Twitter streaming API. My personal philosophy with Node.js is to use it for small, standalone network servers that complement the rest of my stack - basically anything that needs to handle large amounts of I/O. Everything I've written with Node.js so far has been just a few hundred lines of code. So for templating, database interaction and so on I'll keep using Django. I'll use Node for stuff like comet/WebSocket pubsub services, handling file uploads, rate limiting API proxies, webhook dispatching, interacting with slow or streaming external web APIs, etc. GitHub are using Node in this way at the moment: https://github.com/blog/678-meet-nodeload-the-new-download-server https://github.com/blog/678-meet-nodeload-the-new-download-s...
- gorm 16y agoVery cool! Would love to learn some more on how this was done?
- ammmir 16y agoi'm not sure how these guys did it, but one could do a similar setup. one of the issues to overcome is availability of ports. since most apps will listen on port 80, you can use the HTTP Host header to virtual host instances. a reverse proxy can be set up at nnn.jsapp.us, look up the nnn and get an IP:port of which (internal) node instance to pass the request to. you could internally use UNIX domain sockets so there wouldn't be a need to worry about TCP sockets, but your frontend proxy needs to be smart about this. thus nnn.jsapp.us can be mapped to a single IP address. things get more tricky if you allow people to host arbitrary TCP servers that aren't reverse-proxy friendly. the jsapp.us implementation seems to ignore a port argument to listen(), which seems reasonable. the jsapp.us implementation seems to be able to keep multiple node instances running. obviously, if more and more people start hitting the server with their apps, this could lead to resource starvation. they probably have a clever way of not keeping the node instances sitting idle. if a particular nnn.jsapp.us host exists and the node instance isn't up, start it on the first "cold" request to that host. this allows the service to keep only those instances up and running that have had recent requests. or maybe they shut down a user's instances only when they log out or close the editor page? that's my take on it. someone (maybe the jsapp.us guys?) should put together an all-in-one node.js hosting service that has a nice web-based editor based on Bespin or Cloud9 IDE and integrates node-inspector for an awesome remote debugging experience.
- kristiandupont 16y agoDoes anybody have experience with Jaxer: http://www.jaxer.org/ http://www.jaxer.org/ - it seems simpler than node.js for a normal webapp but I haven't seen it referenced here..
- andrewcamel 16y agoThanks to matthewfl (http://twitter.com/#!/matthewfl http://twitter.com/#!/matthewfl) for putting the time in to make this. It's really useful for someone who wants to experiment with node.js.
- cmelbye 16y agoVery cool idea, but is it so hard to add body { font-family: sans-serif; } (replace "sans-serif" with your favorite font if necessary) to your CSS?
- anatoly 16y agoI hope someone does "Try Javascript in the browser".
- sh1mmer 16y agoIt's not really "in" the browser. It's more try Node.js using the browser. That said, they've done a sterling job of it.