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Hi all

I have some big news to share with you today.

As many of you have noticed, I've had less time to dedicate to SocketStream in recent months, causing me to become somewhat of a bottleneck to incoming pull requests and future developments.

After a great deal of thought about my future goals and the best outcome for existing users, I decided to ask my good friend Paul Jensen if he would like to take over the project. I'm very happy to announce he has accepted.

As many of you know, Paul's been involved in SocketStream from day one. We both spent a number of years working together at AOL using SocketStream to create some of the world's first 100% realtime web apps, a year or so before Meteor came along.

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Last active December 16, 2015 16:09
Announcing Prism - a new realtime server

Hi all

It's my pleasure to announce the first (alpha) release of Prism, a new realtime server:

https://github.com/socketstream/prism

Prism is a standalone module aimed at those who just want a backend realtime (WebSocket) server and nothing else. It assumes you already have an asset build system, static file server, and many of the other features provided by SocketStream and other web frameworks.

Prism is the first module to be spun out of SocketStream as I work towards releasing version 0.4 of the framework. This process started a few months ago and will continue until all major 'ideas' in SocketStream are separated into small, standalone modules.