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Abu Romaïssae
Abu Romaïssae

Reputation: 3911

implementing a chat webapplication

I need to develop a web application with a chat feature, and I would like to know if there are any sophisticated ways to create a realtime web-application with a push engine.

I know jQuery, and I can handle to create a chat web-application which, in the client side, check every period for new messages, and show them, but I don't like this solution and I was wondering if there are any better ways to do it.

In my research I discovered the existence Ajax Push Engine project, and it looks like what I need, but when I was navigating in their website I found it not very well done and somehow incomplete, so I was wondring if there API is stable enough to be put in a production environment if not are there any other solutions?

Sorry if I made it long, any help/hint/link/suggestion would be very welcomed :)

EDIT

I would like to specify that I'm working with PHP in the server side

Upvotes: 1

Views: 496

Answers (2)

Lasse Christiansen
Lasse Christiansen

Reputation: 10325

I recently (year 2012) developed an application in ASP.NET MVC3 where I used SignalR for real-time messaging between server and client. At their own site, they describe SignalR like this:

ASP.NET SignalR is a new library for ASP.NET developers that makes it incredibly simple to add real-time web functionality to your applications. What is "real-time web" functionality? It's the ability to have your server-side code push content to the connected clients as it happens, in real-time.

... and they give the following example of what you can use SignalR for:

SignalR can be used to add any sort of "real-time" web functionality to your ASP.NET application. While chat is often used as an example, you can do a whole lot more. Any time a user refreshes a web page to see new data, or the page implements Ajax long polling to retrieve new data, is candidate for using SignalR.

Further, based on my experience, I believe it is very simple to set up, easy to use, and have a good github page with well-written documentation that gets you going in no time. I can highly recommend it :)

Upvotes: 1

AGDM
AGDM

Reputation: 104

Here is an implementation in NodeJs.

http://dhotson.tumblr.com/post/271733389/a-simple-chat-server-in-node-js

Upvotes: 1

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