WANTED: Practical applications of Web Sockets and Web Workers

[elgreg]

We'd love to have someone talk about practical applications for web sockets in everyday applications. Do you know a lot about this? Are you using web sockets in a production application used by real users?

[esonderegger]

I've attended the last two DCJS meetups and really enjoyed the talks, especially last night's jQuery in ES6 talk. Thanks to all who helped organize it!

I've never given a technical talk before, but thought it might be fun to give a talk about using javascript in robotics applications. Initially I was thinking it could be an unusual starting point for a talk about thinking asynchronously and using promises, but it could also be a way to talk about web sockets.

At Savioke, we use Meteor for a bunch of applications that control the Relay robot. Meteor uses web sockets to send real-time information from the server to the client, but abstracts away a lot of the complexity. I don't think it would make sense to include Meteor in this talk, but a simple example project could be built using socket.io (like this demo: https://github.com/esonderegger/turtlesim-demo/tree/socket.io) or with ws on the server and native WebSockets on the client.

I'm still in the beginning stages of even thinking about how to present this, so I probably wouldn't be ready until a couple months from now. Do you think it's an idea worth pursuing?

[jakerella]

I think this sounds great! Please let us know about your progress. I'd say open a new issue here when you have the beginnings of an abstract and we can iterate on that. Thanks!!

[meljameson]

Did we get a web sockets talk yet or is this still up for grabs?

[elgreg]

100% still up for grabs!

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[meljameson]

Cool! What meetup/audience should the talk be targeting?

[jakerella]

Our audience is all over the place, but it's fine to submit a talk that is a step above absolute beginner. That said, a talk that is too advanced may be difficult for most folks to follow. I think it's important to just state what you level you assume people are at in the talk abstract.