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Ircd.js: A Node.js IRC Daemon

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47 pointsalexyoung13 comments

Bug report: nicks and channels are supposed to be compared case-insensitively (and there's some oddities due to IRC's Scandinavian origin, like '{' is uppercase '[').

Thanks, I appreciate that. I was a bit confused about it.

OT but Anyone actively pumping out stuff for node.js? I just installed it on my slice last week; it took me about an 30-40 minutes to get through the README :| (mostly due to some missing dependencies), flipped through man, and was like wtf I'm doing. . .point being, it seemed like it'd take some serious investment to, first, figure what you're doing, and, second, to produce something interesting.

Coolest application I've seen come out of node.js is http://mrdoob.com/125/Multiuser_Sketchpad_HTML5. I'd be interested in what others are doing in it; let alone, how they got about doing they wanted to do in it.

A great way to get comfortable with node.js is to read github projects that are using it. I've got a few at github.com/dpritchett but I'd particularly recommend anything at http://github.com/jashkenas . Dig into some of the NodeKO winners and see if you can find source code, too.

stephank's orona (html5 tank game) is a neat project: http://github.com/stephank/orona

I would go so far as to say that the greatest strength of node.js is the way people crank out interesting and possibly useful code and stick it on github. This makes it very easy to dive in and start hacking.

I would particularly recommend checking out socket.io, and maybe some of the projects using it. It's a way of doing realtime browser-server communication, which uses websockets if the browser supports it, and a variety of increasingly ugly fallbacks on browsers that are old and/or made by Microsoft. You can make some very cool stuff with it.

Also, definitely get npm, the node package manager. It makes installing libraries much easier:

http://github.com/isaacs/npm

Nice job and congratulations on your progress.

Now, what would be really interesting is if you were to add a WebSocket layer into the server, so one could write a browser-based client that would directly interface with the IRC server without having to proxy like mibbit does.

Yeah, I actually thought about that. I'm not sure if I want to bundle that into the main server.

I made a web-based chat system maybe a year ago called JsChat, so I might use some of the stuff I learned there and do a nice Socket.IO thing.

You might want to look at a simple chatbox I built on socket.io a few weeks back: http://github.com/dpritchett/chatbox

It's not IRC per se but it's a simple enough example of realtime chat via socket.io.

I'd also like to see a node.js/html5-based irc client. the cgi and java ones I normally see around, well, really suck, and it's not like someone hasn't already written an irc client lib.

As Alex said to me the other day "Node.js is not powered by Candyfloss and rainbows".

I am though, so it'll be OK

word up

it's the code word

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