Demonstration of HTTP Long Polling and Web Sockets

This repository contains demonstration of the usage of _HTTP-Polling and _WebSockets in the form of a simple web based chat. The chat is only supposed to demonstrate the usage of web sockets or HTTP Long Polling for the university in the class "Verteilte Systeme".

Dependencies

The demonstration depends on some external dependencies which must be installed on your workstation in order to run this demonstration.

Due the fact that this demo uses Node.js you have to first to install first on your system by following the installation instruction on the Website.

Install

$ npm install -g bower
$ npm install
$ bower install

Running the Demo

$ chmod 755 bin/www
$ npm start

Anschließend öffnen der URL