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In the past years it has become easier to create a nodejs app and special ports for websockets are now available even for shared servers, both via https://my.webfaction.com/new-application. Combining these two however is not trivial: the 'App category' widget lets you choose between a 'Node' app and a 'Websockets app'. If your want your Node app to use websockets, you need to choose 'websockets' and then install the Node part somehow yourself, although it says that 'the custom application (read: Node) is not required to reside there (read: in the newly created Websocket app directory). Creating a Node app first, then the 'Websocket app' and using the port given from this websocket app in the Node app to listen to, does not work. So what is the suggested way at this date (2016) to create a Node app that uses websockets, e.g. with the socket.io module? asked 27 Apr '16, 16:13 expdesign |
Actually it does, and is the recommended way to do Node with websockets on our platform. The specific steps are:
If you've done that and it's not working for you, then feel free to open a support ticket to let us know the specific problem you're seeing. Hope that helps! answered 27 Apr '16, 16:25 seanf "Configure your site in the control panel to use the websockets app instead of the node app": counter-intuitive but a very important hint. Also, in case of using socket.io, the option 'path' for the io.connect function should end on /socket.io/, eg, when the website for the websocket app is subdomain '/ws', use io.connect('/',{path:'/ws/socket.io'});
(28 Apr '16, 12:00)
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