AppHarbor adds node.js support

http://blog.appharbor.com/2012/01/19/announcing-node-js-support

by runesoerensen • 15 years ago

29 7 15 years ago

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friism• 15 years ago

Here's the node.js chat application running on AppHarbor: http://nodejschat.apphb.com/

thelastnode• 15 years ago

How does this compare to Heroku?

Neither seem to support WebSockets (though the Heroku article I found was a bit dated[1]) for the time being.

From the article, it seems like AppHarbor doesn't automagically pull in the dependencies from the package.json, which Heroku does.

Add-ons wise, there is a lot of overlap, but Heroku definitely has more at the moment.

Heroku lets you run one-off processes, which is nice for debugging. I couldn't find this functionality on AppHarbor.

[1] http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2011/6/22/the_new_heroku_2_n...

nodesocket• 15 years ago

We (NodeSocket) support WebSockets since we provide full VPS servers with root access. Obviously though we are linux only, where AppHarbor is Windows.

runesoerensen2• 15 years ago

AppHarbor uses nginx as a load balancer and it currently doesn't support HTTP/1.1 proxying with upstream servers, which is required for Websockets support. It was recently introduced in the development branch (v. 1.1.4 http://nginx.org/en/CHANGES) and should make it's way into the stable branch soon.

We (AppHarbor) are adding support for node.js on a beta-basis primarily to collect initial feedback from our users. Improved support for debugging node apps is certainly something we'll look into.

piotrSikora• 15 years ago

HTTP/1.1 doesn't mean WebSocket support (which nginx doesn't do right now).

skilesare• 15 years ago

This makes my day.

AppHarbor adds node.js support

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