Diving into WebSockets: New Premium Tutorial
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Diving into WebSockets: New Premium Tutorial

on Jun 15th 2011 with 23 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Topic - Socket.IO
  • Difficulty - Advanced
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Learn how to leverage the power of asynchronous server-to-browser “push” communication with Node.js and Socket.IO. With Socket.IO, you can allow your server to communicate with your browser clients without having to worry about browser support (HTML5 WebSockets, Flash, polling, etc.).

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This has many applications in modern web development, including chat rooms, real-time analytics, HTML5 games, etc. In this screencast, we will walk you through installing Socket.IO, the basics of using Socket.IO in your Node.js application, and an example application that “pushes” tweets from Twitter to your browser in real time.

Diving into WebSockets

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  • Ross

    This looks great! I was just recently looking at some tutorials on Web Sockets so I’m glad that there is now a premium tut on it.

  • http://www.buncreative.com Danc

    Can’t login to my premium member area…

  • http://neuralinteractive.com Chris

    I can login, however I can’t seem to download the files or view the tutorial here. What gives?

  • ingof

    I can login but i can’t find any premium content to download. Is there a trick ? would be great if you also could make the login to premium link bit more prominent.

    Regards

    • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way

      Are you logging in at tutsplus.com?

      • http://buncreative.com danc

        Hi Jeffrey way, from the morning till now. There is no way we can login to the premium section. What is going on…

      • http://www.jeffrey-way.com Jeffrey Way

        It’s working fine for me. Go to tutsplus.com, login, and it takes you where??

      • http://buncreative.com danc

        Hi Jeffrey,

        It only work when I am at tutplus.com.
        Just being curious, it normally work fine, when I login through nettuts.
        But why not this time round?

      • disrael

        Why is it that a site that provides SO MUCH awesome content for website development can’t detect and make it clear to the user whether or not they’re logged in?

  • Martin

    I can’t login either.

    • Martin

      On second thought, it’s possibly because my Premium Subscribtion has run out. Anyways, I don’t get any errors when I try to login, I’m just redirected back here. Whats up with that?

  • Tim

    Same problem here. It says redirecting then redirects me back to this page.

  • Ethan Winters

    Also can’t login.

    • Ethan Winters

      nevermind…also have expired account. notification system is crappy, though.

  • http://newarts.at Drazen Mokic

    I treid to extend my premium with Creditcard via Paypal but it does not work. I get an error that my mail is already in use but the same data works if i deposit cash on themeforest via paypal.

    Are tutsplus and themeforest using different paypal api`s ? ;(

  • http://newarts.at Drazen Mokic

    I bought the tut on the marketplace for $ 1 and i think the price is ok altough i expected more from a premium tut.

    Anyway, thanks

  • http://www.tilomitra.com Tilo

    Can you explain a Websocket example that does not use a real-time firehose API like Twitter?

  • http://www.molyvdesign.com Molyv Design

    Thanks for sharing. Much appreciated!

  • http://level09.com Nidal

    Socket.io has been updated with completely new APIs, this is most likely the reason why we cant access the files, they are probably changing the code/screen cast so it works with the new APIs.

  • Noob

    I just signed up for Premium, but cannot access premium content. I’m logged in. So, wtf??? Can someone create a tut on how to freakin’ log into this site and stay logged in??? So frustrated!

    • Noob

      Oh. I see why now. This is so retarded. Tutsplus should really hire a better web developer to redo their login membership system. Here’s what I’m noticing (as a new Premium member):

      1) The login only works if you’re at tutsplus.com and not anywhere else.

      2) The subscription date DOES NOT start on the same day you’ve purchased the Premium membership; it starts THE NEXT DAY.

      3) The passwords are not encrypted. I just got an email with my username and password UNENCRYPTED. This is very bad. What if LulzSec hack into their servers and post login info (along with payment info) of all of the members here???

      Please, dear god, fix these issues immediately!

      I don’t know if I can trust tutorials from a site that can’t even do logins correctly….

      • http://www.twitter.com/loris loris

        Receiving an email with unencrypted password does not necessarily mean they store passwords unencrypted in their dB.

  • Safa

    Why cant i see this tutorial or download files? I tried all things, login here, login on tuts+ site and everything else, but everytime i log in and get here, it only tells me that i should join the premium program to see this, when i click to download files, it errors out.
    If this is how it will keep going, thats $78 well wasted, I recommend try fixing you systems before trying to teach people how to fix stuff.