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donald
donald

Reputation: 23747

Node.js: Receive events from browser

How do I receive events from the browser in my node.js code? (e.g: I imagine Mixpanel, kissmetrics, etc do something like this?

thanks

Upvotes: 3

Views: 787

Answers (4)

Benjamin Atkin
Benjamin Atkin

Reputation: 14725

I recommend dnode. Search for dnode on the browser in the README. It's a quick and complete example of making a RPC. In this case the remote function would be an event handler.

It uses socket.io, which supports websockets, flash sockets, and xhr.

Upvotes: 1

generalhenry
generalhenry

Reputation: 17319

What you're looking for is http://hummingbirdstats.com/ realtime stats 20 times a second.

You should also checkout socket.io if you haven't. Websockets events are faster than HTTP requests.

Upvotes: 2

Paul Sonier
Paul Sonier

Reputation: 39490

You have to send them to your server, via AJAX or some similar method.

Remember, node code runs on the server; the browser runs on the client. The way to get information back and forth from a server to a client running a web browser is an HTTP request.

Upvotes: 1

Dan Grossman
Dan Grossman

Reputation: 52372

The same way any other web server receives events from the browser: the browser makes an HTTP request to the URL of your server and the server receives that request. Listening for HTTP requests is the "Hello World" example for node.js.

Upvotes: 3

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