node.js multi room chat example

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I'm looking for a websocket/node.js chat implementation which supports multiple rooms.

I'm also going to write an app which needs multiple rooms or servers, and I'm just looking for some code samples of how people do it.

Thanks.

I know there's a service http://pusherapp.com which provides this service, but I'm looking for an open source example.

I'm out of votes for today, otherwise I'd upvote. @Ryan is this question really "unclear or not useful"? Because that's what it says on the downvote button. — Pekka, Aug 04 '10 at 20:35
Upvoted, because the question per se is perfectly fine IMHO. Even if the result may be "that's not what you should be doing", which can be instructive in itself. Unfortunately, I have no insight into note.js to offer. — chryss, Aug 04 '10 at 20:37
If we left everything up to a single person/group to do everything that's challenging, there'd be no innovation, no competition, and we'd have a monopoly. So I disagree with Ryan. — jamiebarrow, Sep 07 '10 at 09:05

score 6 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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I realized that you have not yet received a solution to your issue yet. Suggest looking at this question where i have provided the answer:

node-websocket-server: possible to have multiple, separate "broadcasts" for a single node.js process?

edited May 23 '17 at 10:29

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answered Dec 15 '10 at 03:25

Shripad Krishna

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 25 '13 at 16:12

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tested and working great:

https://github.com/mmukhin/psitsmike_example_2

(node.js and socket.io multiroom chat tutorial with 17 stars on github)

answered Feb 25 '13 at 16:12

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 09 '12 at 17:35

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Wompt is an node.js multi-room chat server that was recently open-sourced.

answered Jun 09 '12 at 17:35

Daniel Beardsley

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Dead in the water. I guess it's all Socket.io now? – Domi Apr 22 '15 at 08:47

score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 30 '13 at 23:40

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Socket.io has support for rooms. This link helped me implement them in a matter of seconds.

https://github.com/LearnBoost/socket.io/wiki/Rooms

answered Jan 30 '13 at 23:40

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 01 '10 at 12:24

You can take a look at http://orbited.org/ running STOMP protocol (http://stomp.codehaus.org/Home). It has channel support (your rooms). So you just need to send some JSON encoded messages carrying user's nicknames to a channel. I'm not sure how to get the list of channels, might be that you need to track these yourself.

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 05 '10 at 08:08

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There is a really nice tutorial by laktek that shows how to use websockets with node.js. He has also a colaborative code editor that uses redis as a backend of a pub/sub service described here

answered Sep 05 '10 at 08:08

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score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Sep 06 '10 at 01:08

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There is this Gist available from Ryan Dahl the author of Node.JS which is a basic IRC daemon written in Node.JS. It is featured in this blog post which describes several IRC related Node.JS programs. Together with websocket this might be an alternative to try out.

The webchat demo (http://chat.nodejs.org/) hosted on the Node.JS homepage is a complete example and the source code can be found in the following GitHub repository and is available under the MIT license.

answered Sep 06 '10 at 01:08

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The chat demo is far from complete, because it is severely flawed. – user478419 Dec 04 '10 at 12:37
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The chat demo is currently unreachable. – Erel Segal-Halevi Dec 06 '12 at 10:19

Mark · Answer 8 · 2010-11-22T14:32:27.627

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http://github.com/maccman/juggernaut There's this one, only for ruby though.

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answered Oct 26 '10 at 02:22

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