Node.JS Looking for an alternative to socket.IO

Question

I've been testing Node.JS and Socket.IO for a couple of days. I'm interested in a real-time application that's why I'm testing Socket.IO, problem is I found many problems on several browsers. Chrome always works but IE and Firefox only some times.

My question is, is there a way to push information from the server to the client without sockets (socket.io)? I don't want to set an interval in the client and check if something changes on the server side every "n" seconds.

Answer 1

Faye is a good alternative to Socket.IO for Node.js push applications.

From the Faye website:

Faye is an easy-to-use publish-subscribe messaging system based on the Bayeux protocol. It provides message servers for Node.js and Rack, and clients for use in Node and Ruby programs and in the browser.