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Gustav Dahl
Gustav Dahl

Reputation: 1289

Node.js/SignalR Communication

I got a server running SignalR and another server runing Node.js. I would like these two servers to communicate using SignalR. Is this possible?

I'm thinking I can use the SignalR client javascript library to connect to the SignalR server from Node:js but I can't find any good examples of how to do this.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2438

Answers (1)

Drew Marsh
Drew Marsh

Reputation: 33379

Well the answer to can you do this is ultimately "yes" because there is nothing proprietary about SignalR communication. It's just variations of HTTP or WebSockets with a custom handshake/message framing protocol for Hubs on top of that.

So the how is the question we'd need to answer. Out of the box SignalR provides a client side JavaScript library based on the jQuery plug-in architecture, but that won't help Node.js. Someone has started a Node.js implementation here on GitHub, but according to the ReadMe it only supports HTTP long polling today. I'm unaware of any other implementations at this time, but obviously you start with that one and fork it to add support for the other transports if you wanted.

Upvotes: 2

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