https://github.com/scripting/1999client

A client app for 1999.io, in JavaScript, using WebSockets.
https://github.com/scripting/1999client

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A client app for 1999.io, in JavaScript, using WebSockets.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/scripting/1999client
• Owner: scripting
• License: mit
• Created: 2015-11-12T17:29:44.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2016-04-17T16:16:57.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-08-01T12:34:40.485Z (6 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
• Homepage:
• Size: 11.7 KB
• Stars: 8
• Watchers: 4
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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README

        
#### Client for 1999.io

Important note: There's a more recent version of this app as part of the 1999-project repository. I'm leaving this here as documentation. DW 4/17/2016.

1999.io is my new liveblogging project. It's the software I use to edit Scripting News. When you reply to a post on my blog you are using 1999.io. 

The server is running a recent version of nodeStorage. It provides simple storage services for browser-based JavaScript apps, using Twitter-hosted identity. 

nodeStorage has a WebSockets interface, which we use in this app to get a stream of updates from the server. 

I wrote a blog post that explains why I provided this app, and an overview of how to test it. 

#### Demo app

The demo app is a copy of client.html above. 

#### Details

Every time the server updates you get a message. 

The first line of the message has the world update followed by a \\r. This makes it possible for other kinds of data to be returned at some time in the future.

Following the first line is a JSON structure containing all the information about a top-level message. 

Here's an example of such a structure. It's the JSON source for this post. 

You can view the JSON structure for any post. 

#### Updates 

v0.44 -- rewritten to work with new WebSockets code in nodeStorage, not yet released. 

v0.45 -- use the new 1999.io server, node2.1999.io.