Best if you start google chrome(because of websockets support, but not necessary). Visit http://localhost:3000 to see sample(in the beginning you don't see anything but PubSub as title).
But on publish to channel pubsub you should see a message. Below we publish "Hello world!" to the browser.
Handle redis errors to stop nodejs from exiting. You can do this by writing;
subcribe.on("error", function(){
//Deal with error
})
I think you get the exception because you are using the same client which is subscribed to publish messages. Create a separate client for publishing messages and that could solve your problem.
according to @alex solution. if you have an error like this one as per @tyler mention:
node.js:134
throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error'
event on first tick ^ Error: Redis connection to 127.0.0.1:6379 failed - ECONNREFUSED, Connection refused at Socket.
then you need to install Redis first. check this out:
...put that in a pubsub.js file and run node pubsub.js
in redis-cli:
redis> publish pubsub "Hello Wonky!"
(integer) 1
which should display: pubsub: Hello Wonky! in the terminal running node!
Congrats!
Additional 4/23/2013: I also want to make note that when a client subscribes to a pub/sub channel it goes into subscriber mode and is limited to subscriber commands. You'll just need to create additional instances of redis clients. client1 = redis.createClient(), client2 = redis.createClient() so one can be in subscriber mode and the other can issue regular DB commands.
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