joshsoftware/tapit

Tapit is a Dancing Game built using express, Redis pubsub and socket.io!

Welcome to TapIt - The NextGen Dance Floor

TapIt is a express, socket.io, Redis PubSub powered application. The aim here was to create a proof-of-concept for probably the next-generation of interactive web applications.

Primary Goals

• Very very low latency.
• Entirely web-based i.e. no installation required

Architecture

node - The server-side framework. express.js - The Web server socket.io - WebSocket power Redis Pubsub - Wildcard Push Notification support

Setting it up

Install node, npm and Redis. Install the node modules when you clone this directory.

npm install

Because we have the package.json it will automatically installs the dependant npm modules.

Playing the game

$ node notify.js

• Create a new game! http://localhost:3000/games/new
• When a new game is created, it gets a unique id.
• To join a game, http://host:port/game/:game_id/start
• Enter your handle.
• Dance your heart you!

And if you wanted a live demo - here you are http://tapit.nodejitsu.com

Contributing

Feel free to fork and add more dance moves - Yeah!

Enjoy!

tapit's Issues

install package failed on Mac

I checkout the last version on my Mac 10.8.4 (node v0.10.3), run "npm install" and got this error:
1 error generated.
gmake[1]: *** [hiredis.o] 错误 1
gmake[1]: 离开目录“/Users/Genius/tapit/node_modules/hiredis/deps/hiredis”
gmake: *** [all] 错误 2
npm ERR! [email protected] preinstall: make || gmake
npm ERR! sh "-c" "make || gmake" failed with 2
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] preinstall script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the hiredis package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! make || gmake
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls hiredis
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! System Darwin 12.4.0
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/Genius/tapit
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.3
npm ERR! npm -v 1.2.17
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

I changed the hiredis version in "package.json" from "0.1.13" to "0.1.15" , and it worked fine!

notify.js

Unhandled 'error' event

events.js:66
throw arguments[1]; // Unhandled 'error' event
^
Error: listen EADDRINUSE
at errnoException (net.js:768:11)
at HTTPServer.Server._listen2 (net.js:908:14)
at listen (net.js:935:10)
at HTTPServer.Server.listen (net.js:984:5)
at Object. (C:\Program Files\nodejs\tapit-master\notify.js:20:5)
at Module._compile (module.js:449:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:467:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.runMain (module.js:492:10)