Planet JavaScript

James Coglan has ported a Ruby/EventMachine Comet server to offer a new Node.js server on the Bayeux protocol. The project is Faye and you can check out the code on GitHub. On the client side: PLAIN TEXT HTML:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/comet.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">

    CometClient = new Faye.Client('/comet');

    CometClient.connect();

</script>

PLAIN TEXT JAVASCRIPT:

  CometClient.subscribe('/path/to/channel', function(message) {

    // process received message object

  [...]

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