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Published in Oct 2015

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781785880865

Pages 184 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Concepts

Data Visualization

Author (1):

Tyson Cadenhead

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Socket.IO Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. Wiring It Up

Introduction
Creating a Node HTTP server with Socket.IO
Creating an Express server with Socket.IO
Using Socket.IO as a cross-browser WebSocket
Debugging on the client
Debugging on the server

2. Creating Real-Time Dashboards

Introduction
Loading static data from the server
Creating a server-side clock
Loading data from MongoDB
Real-time analytics
Handling connection timeouts

3. Having Two-Way Conversations

Introduction
Creating a simple chat room
Managing the socket life cycle
Emitting a private message to another socket
Sending messages to all the sockets, except for the sender
Building a multiplayer tic-tac-toe game

4. Building a Room with a View

Introduction
Creating chat channels with namespaces
Joining rooms
Leaving rooms
Listing rooms the socket is in
Creating private rooms
Setting up a default room

5. Securing Your Data

Introduction
Implementing basic authentication
Performing token-based authentication
Handling server-side validation
Locking down the HTTP referrer
Using secure WebSockets

6. Performing a Load Balancing Act

Introduction
Performing load balancing with the Nginx server
Using the Node.js cluster
Using Redis to pass events between nodes
Using Memcached to manage multiple nodes
Using RabbitMQ to message events across nodes

7. Streaming Binary Data

Introduction
Broadcasting an image to other sockets
Uploading an image to the filesystem
Uploading an image to Amazon S3
Streaming audio
Streaming live video

8. Integrating with Mobile Applications

Introduction
Throwing an alert when the socket connects
Pushing up data from the server
Responding to tap events from the device
Doing server-side pagination
Triggering hot deploys

Index

Chapter 3. Having Two-Way Conversations

In this chapter, we will cover the following recipes:

Creating a simple chat room
Managing the socket life cycle
Emitting a private message to another socket
Sending messages to all the sockets, except for the sender
Building a multiplayer tic-tac-toe game

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