Socket. IO Real-Time Web Application Development

Rohit Rai

Jan 2013 · Packt Publishing Ltd

About this ebook

Written in an engaging, easy-to-follow style, "Socket.io Real-time Web Application Development" is a practical guide for developing real-time web applications with Node.js and socket.io.This book is aimed at developers who want to start developing highly interactive and real-time web applications like chat systems or online multiplayer games, or want to introduce real-time updates or server push mechanisms in their existing applications. Knowledge of developing in JavaScript and web applications in general is expected. Though there is a chapter on introducing Node.js, prior knowledge of Node.js will be a plus.

Ratings and reviews

Very nicely written. Simple to understand and easy to complete the book and gain confidence. Thanks Rohit.

About the author

Pentaho and Hadoop, to modern platforms like Groovy, Scala, and Node.js.He is a founder of TupleJump, a startup building new generation Data Engineering Platform unifying and optimizing the data scientists, engineers and analysts workflows, bringing in innovative data process development approach and modern visualization framework, all built on cutting edge technologies designed to scale transparently from single machine to large distributed big data clusters.In his past experience he has worked with Cordys R&D, Pramati technologies, and various startups. He has consulted with big name clients like Intel and Sun, helping them develop products like MashMaker and Zembly powered by JavaScript. He was one of the first team members in SocialTwist and developed one of the first widgets as a service platform and framework which continues to power the widely successful social media marketing and referral platform used by many Fortune 500 companies.In open source, Rohit is a core committer and the administrator of Matisse (http: //www.matisse.org/), the collaborative design platform, the creator of socket.io.play, the socket.io module for play framework, and various open source projects hosted at GitHub (https: //github.com/rohit-tingendab)