An XMPP server with Node.js

http://blog.superfeedr.com/node-xmpp-server/

by julien • 15 years ago

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Raphael• 15 years ago

It's amazing how powerful a combination Node and Redis are. What more could you need?

iambot• 15 years ago

all the node.js peeps will be frantically trying to sort out their @node_knockout projects, I hope those that need it see this in time

jeromeparadis3• 15 years ago

That seems cool but it took me a few seconds to realize that their 4th and 5th line of code in the clustering example in the post are identical. I doubt that should be the case. Pretty early it seems.

sofuture• 15 years ago

pub + sub

jeromeparadis3• 15 years ago

Doh! I really need to improve my code reading skills, it seems. Sorry. :-(

julien2• 15 years ago

Jerome, the cluster example is just an example of clustering :) you can run the example/c2s.js for a single node example (which won't even require redis).

Also, the 2 lines are actually different. The node.js lib for redis is a bit weird, so we need both a "pub" client and a "sub" client :)

jeromeparadis3• 15 years ago

Sorry about the remark. What a difference a character makes... I suppose it was too late or too early in the day. In any case, your article was quite helpful because I've been using Redis a lot, but not yet the PubSub functions. I've found this approach solves a clustering problem I foresee with a current real-time node project.

schiptsov• 15 years ago

and compared to ejabberd it is, let me guess, slower, unscalable, uses more memory and can handle less simultaneous connections. ^_^

almost2• 15 years ago

Which only matters when it matters. There's lots of use in having sometging hackable. And who knows where it's heading. So no need for the "it's not as scalable as X hence it's worthless" attitude...

MostAwesomeDude4• 15 years ago

Hear hear! By tossing out that attitude, Node developers have been able to ignore better, more mature codebases like Twisted and Event Machine in favor of hand-rolled event loops built on a slower, less useful language, and the world's definitely better for it.

julien2• 15 years ago

Maybe you could provide a few arguments, or better yet : benchmark things :) I have no idea how far this XMPP server can go, how slow it is, but I know that at least 3 orders of magnitude more people on earth can hack on it, debug, provide patches and won't charge insane amounts of money for this :)

MostAwesomeDude4• 15 years ago

ejabberd is free and open software, licensed under the GPL and freely available without charge. I'm not sure where you get "charg[ing] insane amounts of money" from.

mweibel• 15 years ago

I'll definitely try that out, as I'm not that happy with ejabberd (documentation is awful and erlang is..well.. a little bit weird to me). Does it already support MUC?

Btw. did you see vines? the ruby xmpp server? Sounds also interesting :)

brendoncrawford• 15 years ago

It would be interesting to see how this stacks up to Ejabbered with say 20k+ concurrent users.

An XMPP server with Node.js

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