I too had issues with socket.io but have found engine.io to be quite pleasant. Did you try engine.io and come to similar frustrations?
On Jul 8, 2013, at 6:01AM, Oleg Slobodskoi <oleg...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hello there :) > > I have recently started a new project after lots of frustration with > socketio. Simpleio is not a full replacement of all the features of socketio, > but its actually everything one might need to create chatty like messaging on > any hosting using a long polling which works everywhere. Most important > design goals are: > support for router/balancer without sticky sessions (f.e. Heroku) > optimized for horizontal scaling > reliable message delivery (built-in delivery confirmation) > multiplexing on the server and client > lightweight client (appr. 2.5 kb minified and gzipped) > simple client spec, which can be implemented easily in any language > Native clients for anroid and ios are will be usable in some weeks. > > Best, > Oleg > > http://github.com/kof/simpleio > > > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.