Nodejs on Micha Kops' Tech Notes

Creating and Providing HipChat Integrations with Atlassian Connect, Nodejs and Express

Tue, 18 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0200

HipChat is Atlassian’s alternative to Slack and its solution to team collaboration chats. Atlassian Connect offers developer tools to bootstrap applications, connect to Atlassian’s cloud products with easy and in combination with HipChat’s REST APIs allows us to write integrations for such a chat server in no time.

In the following tutorial I’d like to show how to write an integration within a few steps using Atlassian Connect, Node.js and Express and how to connect the integration to a HipChat server.

HTML5 Server Send Events using Node.js or Jetty

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:00:00 +0200

The HTML5 working draft describes different techniques to push information from a server to the client and the one described in this tutorial are Server-Send Events (SSE).

Using Server-Send-Events eliminates the need to poll a server periodically for information using AJAX and is really easy to implement because of the simple specification and the fact that nearly all modern browsers already implement this specification.

The Client Side

Registering for Server Send Events (SSE) is quite easy .. simply create a new EventSource object that is bound to the URL where the events are propagated.

JavaScript Snippets

Mon, 01 Mar 2010 00:00:00 +0100

Creating a Nodejs Module

1) Create a package.json using npm init

$ npm init

This utility will walk you through creating a package.json file. It only covers the most common items, and tries to guess sane defaults.

See npm help json for definitive documentation on these fields and exactly what they do.

Use npm install <pkg> --save afterwards to install a package and save it as a dependency in the package.json file.