Node.js: Receive events from browser

Question

How do I receive events from the browser in my node.js code? (e.g: I imagine Mixpanel, kissmetrics, etc do something like this?

thanks

Answer 1

The same way any other web server receives events from the browser: the browser makes an HTTP request to the URL of your server and the server receives that request. Listening for HTTP requests is the "Hello World" example for node.js.

Answer 2

What you're looking for is http://hummingbirdstats.com/ realtime stats 20 times a second.

You should also checkout socket.io if you haven't. Websockets events are faster than HTTP requests.