On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Kyle Mathews <[email protected]>wrote:
> The easiest way to get started doing something realtime IMO is node.js and > socket.io. Socket.io is an abstraction library that provides a > WebSocket-like api but that works on all browsers, not just those that > support WebSockets. Node.js is server-side javascript and its goal is to > "provide an easy way to build scalable network programs." > > I've been using both of them pretty heavily for the past couple of months > and they are both very easy to get going with and are very very performant. > Even a simple light-weight server should be able to handle 10s of thousands > of connected players. > > Throw in Coffeescript and Brunch <http://brunchwithcoffee.com/> for > client-side development and you have a very nice development stack! > If you're already working in django, you may want to look at some combination of gunicorn and gevent-socketio. As awesome as node.js is, it may be significantly easier to keep everything in one application. (Disclaimer -- gevent-socketio is beta, but appears to be at least minimally alive) HTH, Mike Larsen
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