Today marks the first day of my research into using WebSockets for a project that will otherwise pretty much be plagued by a poor user experience if its done as a web app that relies on long polling etc.
So I feel like I’m turning to the dark side, well not quite but I am getting stuck into node.js and socket.io right now and as a Windows kid this is quite a fun experience..
Once I have built a few test projects I will reflect back but until then heres how I started.
- Download Cygwin
- Install Cygwin and download Node.js from Git. Follow this guide
Update: When installing the Cygwin modules you should also grab net -> curl you will need this to install npm (which is what you use to install Socket.IO) - Grab Socket.IO using npm
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