websocketd
WebSockets the UNIX way
About Me
- Robert Axelsen
- Twitter: @Robert_Axelsen
- More: http://rob.ee/
"WebSockets is an advanced technology that makes it possible to open an interactive communication session between the user's browser and a server.
With this API, you can send messages to a server and receive event-driven responses without having to poll the server for a reply."
- MDN web docs
Example usage
- Social feeds
- Multiplayer games
- Collaborative editing
- Realtime dashboards
- Chat apps
websocketd
- websocketd is the WebSocket daemon
- Full duplex messaging between web browsers and servers
- Turn any program that uses STDIN/STDOUT into a WebSocket server
- It's like CGI, twenty years later, for WebSockets
- Includes a static file server for convenience
Demo Time
