Hello fellow stackers.
I am implementing node.js and nowjs on a website I am working on. I started developing the site weeks ago on localhost and everything was working fine. I transferred the files couple of days ago to a cloud server hosted by rackspace with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) as OS.
Now I cant get the simple chat example on the nowjs home page to work! I keep getting the following error when I try to run the server side script :
[RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded]
There are no recursive loops in my code and I have tried looking for solutions for my problem all over the internet with no luck.
Here are my two example files – a c/p from the chat/helloworld example at the official nowjs site. (http://nowjs.com/doc/example)
server.js
var html = require('fs').readFileSync(__dirname+'/helloworld.html');
var server = require('http').createServer(function(req, res){
res.end(html);
});
server.listen(8080);
var nowjs = require("now");
var everyone = nowjs.initialize(server);
everyone.now.distributeMessage = function(message){
everyone.now.receiveMessage(this.now.name, message);
};
helloworld.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>nowjs test</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="/nowjs/now.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
now.receiveMessage = function(name, message){
$("#messages").append("<br>" + name + ": " + message);
}
$("#send-button").click(function(){
now.distributeMessage($("#text-input").val());
$("#text-input").val("");
});
now.name = prompt("What's your name?", "");
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="messages"></div>
<input type="text" id="text-input">
<input type="button" value="Send" id="send-button">
</body>
</html>
My questions :
- Has anyone had the same problem running nowjs on a hosted web server?
- Are there any dependencies that I might not be aware of when running nowjs on a hosted web server?
Thank you.
I finally resolved this. All that needed was a reinstallation of node with the most recent stable version(v0.4.12).