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Chat Room In 10 Lines of JavaScript

16 points by pubnub 16y ago

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landhar 16y ago
You don't escape html entities, you can easily have fun inverting text with the mirroring character ‮
lux 16y ago
I love all the stuff coming out in the Javascript world lately, especially things making comet-style coding easier. That said, seeing last week's chatroom in 15 loc and this week's chatroom in 10 lines kinda reminds me of the "5 minute abs" infomercials. I wonder when the first Perl-style one-liner chatroom will come out? :) In seriousness, I'd love to see a comparison between this and now.js and some of the others.
- pavel_lishin 16y ago
  > I wonder when the first Perl-style one-liner chatroom will come out? Does "<iframe src='http://www.pubnub.com/blog/build-real-time-web-apps-easy> http://www.pubnub.com/blog/build-real-time-web-apps-easy&#62... count?
- Turny 16y ago
  @lux ...curious...do you have a link to last weeks 'chat room n 15 loc'?
clammer 16y ago
Wish I saw this before I spend hours writing and testing a comet server in C# for IIS. I still can't believe Amazon doesn't have this as a webservice yet. Still, I wonder how their lib interacts with mobile OSs because running comet in the background for these devices can kill the battery life.
Turny 16y ago
@lux ...curious...do you have a link to last weeks 'chat room n 15 loc'?
- lux 16y ago
  I believe it was for these guys: http://nowjs.com/ http://nowjs.com/
- ericz 16y ago
  http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=2316005 http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=2316005
bcrescimanno 16y ago
10 lines of javascript..so long as you include these other several hundred lines from a library. It's cool that you can work this way with the PubNub library--but on the web, where all of the code needed actually has to be downloaded by the client, it's completely disingenuous.
- lux 16y ago
  Not completely. It does save me from writing the other hundreds of lines, which is more what they mean than a chatroom in 10 loc total. Anything that staves the onset of carpal tunnel for us hackers a little longer is a good deal to me :)
  - bcrescimanno 16y ago
    As I stated, I think it's great that you can use the library to help you do this; but the truth is, to use this chat program, clients have to download and execute far more than 10 lines of code.
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16 points by pubnub 16y ago

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landhar 16y ago

You don't escape html entities, you can easily have fun inverting text with the mirroring character ‮

lux 16y ago

I love all the stuff coming out in the Javascript world lately, especially things making comet-style coding easier. That said, seeing last week's chatroom in 15 loc and this week's chatroom in 10 lines kinda reminds me of the "5 minute abs" infomercials. I wonder when the first Perl-style one-liner chatroom will come out? :) In seriousness, I'd love to see a comparison between this and now.js and some of the others.

pavel_lishin 16y ago
> I wonder when the first Perl-style one-liner chatroom will come out? Does "<iframe src='http://www.pubnub.com/blog/build-real-time-web-apps-easy> http://www.pubnub.com/blog/build-real-time-web-apps-easy&#62... count?
Turny 16y ago
@lux ...curious...do you have a link to last weeks 'chat room n 15 loc'?

clammer 16y ago

Wish I saw this before I spend hours writing and testing a comet server in C# for IIS. I still can't believe Amazon doesn't have this as a webservice yet. Still, I wonder how their lib interacts with mobile OSs because running comet in the background for these devices can kill the battery life.

Turny 16y ago

@lux ...curious...do you have a link to last weeks 'chat room n 15 loc'?

lux 16y ago
I believe it was for these guys: http://nowjs.com/ http://nowjs.com/
ericz 16y ago
http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=2316005 http://apps.ycombinator.com/item?id=2316005

bcrescimanno 16y ago

10 lines of javascript..so long as you include these other several hundred lines from a library. It's cool that you can work this way with the PubNub library--but on the web, where all of the code needed actually has to be downloaded by the client, it's completely disingenuous.

lux 16y ago
Not completely. It does save me from writing the other hundreds of lines, which is more what they mean than a chatroom in 10 loc total. Anything that staves the onset of carpal tunnel for us hackers a little longer is a good deal to me :)
- bcrescimanno 16y ago
  As I stated, I think it's great that you can use the library to help you do this; but the truth is, to use this chat program, clients have to download and execute far more than 10 lines of code.

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