Real Time Web Analytics with Node.js and Socket.IO. I’ve always enjoyed building real-time applications.
A few years ago, I built the Java back-end for the Tour of California “Tour Tracker”, and over the years, I have also been involved in several real-time Trader Desktop projects that I documented in this blog. So I thought it would be nice to explore the process of building a real-time application with Node.js and Socket.IO. As an example, we’ll build a simple web analytics dashboard that shows pages being accessed on a web site in real-time. Kind of like the real-time view in Google Analytics. The basic flow of the app is as follows: Node.js - NodeJS Managed Hostings vs VPS. 6 Months with Node.js. For the past 6 months I’ve been spending most of my time building a new service called Sled.
I’ll write more about Sled in the coming weeks, but for now all you need to know is that Sled is a collaborative list making tool for small groups. Sled is built entirely in JavaScript, both on the back-end and front-end.