Node.js Integration

node.js integration module
justinrandell

node & drupal talking ofver HTTP

authentication happens in drupal
node handles open sockets and what would kill your lamp stack
php’s memory being held up just to have a socket

api module other modules use to do stuff that interests them

node js subscribe module

channels of nodes
unsubscribe via a channel

helper module watches for comments entered on a node

1000 people subscribed to socket and connect to node

NEEDS A DIAGRAM

client

nodes drupal

client requests page from drupal

javascrip opens socket to node
connects - sends auth key - hands auth key over to drupal
node makes no node authentifcation signals
socket stays open - socket wants channels

shutdown messages

messages -
call center workers subscribe to message and get them right away - hard to do with polling

long running operations
give immediate feedback that operation started

nodejs ajax - d7 ajax framework
right commands like a synchronous requstion
mikeyjs

if drupal depends on node js and it goes down --
forever (utility)
supervisor D
ways to manage

socket I/O
a way of extracting what the client and node uses as a transport
a lot of browsers don’t implement websock
FF yanked out of FF 4
socket io - is abstracted and will use whatever it can