CHchangelog·Jul 27, 2011
Fun fact, hook.io uses Dnode as it's primary TCP transport, which is written by Substack! http://github.com/SubStack/dnode
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8 sourcesVNC + node-rfb + node-binary + node-png + dnode + browserify
http://github.com/pkrumins/node-rfb
http://github.com/substack/node-binary
http://github.com/pkrumins/node-png
http://github.com/substack/dnode
http://github.com/substack/node-browserify
In Peteris Krumins: How I went to Silicon Valley and raised $55,000 for Browserling> It looks like it is claiming to support lots of internode cluster-type communication
There are a few projects that specifically take advantage of node's ability to proxy and distribute work across multiple processes.
Check out these projects:
http://learnboost.github.com/cluster/
https://github.com/nodejitsu/node-http-proxy
https://github.com/substack/dnode
Or my very early prototype botnet thingie: https://github.com/isaacs/sodn
In Evolving the Node.js Brandhave a look at dnode: https://github.com/substack/dnode bidirectional remote method invocation. Oh, and a complimentary robot free of charge: http://substack.net/browse/2010-11-08%2022:16:39 :-)
In Node.js is BackwardsSomewhat unrelated, but anyone interested in NowJS should definitely check out https://github.com/substack/dnode first...
In IBM doesn't care about node.js peopleSimple real time apps w/ the same code on client/server using dnode & Node.js
1 points · Open discussionI wanted to cross post this here as I already posted it in the comments.
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I am glad you wrote about this, but I feel you are missing the real 'magic' that can be done with node.js and Backbone, or any client code you choose. Socket.io is great, fantastic even, and I think it is something that really shows the power of node.js; there is something built on top of socket.io that is even more wonderful, and it is called dnode[0]. It is really simple to use, but has a lot of potential for server process to server process and server to client communication. It is in effect RPC, and I really can't do it justice.
For the example you give up here, you could easily overwrite the Backbone.sync function and have it instead send the appropriate objects you need to fetch models on the server, while having the server call back to the client with sa
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id models. Not only that but you could easily remotely invoke the model changed functions in Backbone directly from the server. There is so much more you can do, but I lack the knowledge at this point to put it in play just yet.
[0]: https://github.com/substack/dnode & http://substack.net/posts/85e1bd/DNode-Asynchronous-Remote-M...
There's also an interesting concept in the NodeJS community called dnode. There's no python lib for it yet though (ruby and perl exist).
https://github.com/substack/dnode
In Py a la Node: running python code in node.js