Question

Are there any cloud/hosted push systems which use socket.io on the client side? Systems I know of, none of which use socket.io AFAIK:

• http://beaconpush.com/
• http://pusher.com/
• http://www.pubnub.com/

Are there any services I’m missing? Could any of them be used with socket.io?

Answer 1

Use Socket.IO client API on PubNub.
Early Access: https://github.com/pubnub/pubnub-api/tree/master/socket.io

<!-- SIMPLE USAGE -->
<script src=http://cdn.pubnub.com/pubnub-3.1.min.js></script>
<script src="socket.io.js"></script>
<script>
  var socket = io.connect('http://pubsub.pubnub.com');
  socket.on( 'news', function (data) {
    console.log(data);
  } );
</script>

This simplified usage of Socket.IO will create a connection, listen for a news event and log the data to the console.

More Info: PubNub Website
Play Video: Bidirectional JSON Video

Early Access: https://github.com/pubnub/pubnub-api/tree/master/socket.io