WebSocket Chat

This recipe will help you to setup a basic WebSocket chat in your application.

First you need an amber project generated with Amber CLI or from scratch.

Then setup your socket file:

Then add the websocket verb in your routes file:

Finally you will require an Amber JavaScript Client to connect with your server:

You can get amber.min.js from lib/amber/assets/js/amber.min.js

To serve static files you must enable :static routes, please see pipelines.

Also see more detailed information about this in WebSockets.