Node.JS Looking for an alternative to socket.IO

Question

I\'ve been testing Node.JS and Socket.IO for a couple of days. I\'m interested in a real-time application that\'s why I\'m testing Socket.IO, problem is I found many problem

Answer 1

Socket.IO has had some bugs recently, but they're being actively worked on, so I encourage you to check back later (it may even already be working better now, as there are commits almost every day). This is the issue you should be watching: http://github.com/LearnBoost/Socket.IO-node/issues#issue/63

Answer 2

Faye is a good alternative to Socket.IO for Node.js push applications.

From the Faye website:

Faye is an easy-to-use publish-subscribe messaging system based on the Bayeux protocol. It provides message servers for Node.js and Rack, and clients for use in Node and Ruby programs and in the browser.

Answer 3

You can try long-polling. It's relatively simple and it'll work in almost any browser. Check this out:

http://jsguy.com/?p=103

Hope this helps