Gloup.io: A JavaScript Library for Real-Time Web Applications

Customer expectations are rising faster than web technologies growth. Customers expect an online application to be fast, smooth and easy to use. In most of web application users prefer to use online application as a desktop application which works fast and real-time. The Real-Time Web enables users to have information and result as soon as they are available, rather than requiring that they or their software check a source periodically for updates. Most of web developers use polling techniques to simulate real-time environment in their application but it will cause huge network call and process overhead. Gloup.io works as a middleware to enables real-time, bi-directional communication between web clients and web servers. Gloup.io provides four abstraction layer over its real-time functionality for developers. This article seeks to review current real-time web issues and technologies then introduce Gloup.io as a high-performance and usable real-time JavaScript library

Keywords:

WebSocket , JavaScript , Real-Time Web , Modular Web , WebWorker