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Steve Kinney
March 04, 2015
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Building Real-Time Applications in Ember.js
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Transcript
Building Real-Time Applications in Ember EmberConf 2015
Hi. I'm Steve. @stevekinney |
[email protected]
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Let's talk about building real-time applications with Ember.
This is a story about WebSockets…
It's also a story about integrating all sorts of browser
functionality and third-party code into our applications.
What even is a WebSocket?
WebSockets are an HTTP independent, bi-directional, TCP-based protocol over port
80 standardized in 2011 by the IETF as RFC 6455.
Duh.
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What are WebSockets used for?
Quick Demo
Can I actually use WebSockets?
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Now, that we know everything there is to know about
WebSockets, let’s get to implementing them.
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Step Zero: We need a WebSocket server, right?
A WebSocket server in fourteen lines.
var WebSocketServer = require('ws').Server; var socket = new WebSocketServer({ port:
8080 }); socket.on('connection', function(connection) { connection.on('message', function(message) { socket.broadcast(message); }); }); socket.broadcast = function(data) { this.clients.forEach(function (client) { client.send(data); }); };
What does this look like on the client?
A Traditional Example var socket = io(); $('form').submit(function(){ socket.emit('chat message',
$('#m').val()); $('#m').val(''); return false; }); socket.on('chat message', function(msg){ $('#messages').append($('<li>').text(msg)); });
Ugh. DOM/selector- based development. #fail
—Erik Bryn “Selector-based programming”
We can do better.
Let's try two or three different approaches.
Approach #1: A standalone controller
ember generate controller websocket
app/controllers/ websocket.js
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app/controllers/ chatroom.js
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app/routes/ chatroom.js
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Quick Demo
This approach works great, but it's somewhat limited.
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Approach #2: Dependency Injection with Services
ember generate service websocket
installing create app/services/websocket.js create app/initializers/websocket.js
app/initializers/ websocket.js
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Let's move that code from the controller into our service.
rm -rf app/controllers/websocket.js
app/controllers/ chatroom.js
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That's it.
Approach #3: Using Socket.io
Point of Interest: Socket.io is both a server- and client-
side library.
To each her own.
Let's set up a Socket.io server
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bower install sio-client
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app/services/ websocket.js
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app/controllers/ chatroom.js
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Thank you. Code example: stevekinney/emberconf-chat Twitter and Github: @stevekinney Email:
[email protected]
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