Radar

High level API and backend for writing web apps that use real-time information.

Documentation

See http://radar.zendesk.com/index.html for detailed documentation.

Installation

###Installing from scratch:

• Install and start Redis
• Install a 0.10.x or better branch of Node, look in http://nodejs.org/dist/
• git clone git@github.com:zendesk/radar.git
• npm install
• npm start

###Installing from NPM:

• Install and start redis
• Install a 0.10.x or better branch of Node, look in http://nodejs.org/dist/
• npm init
• npm install --save radar
• create a file called server.js with the contents:

  var http = require('http');
  var Radar = require('radar').server;

  var httpServer = http.createServer(function(req, res) {
    res.end('Nothing here.');
  });

  // Radar server
  var radar = new Radar();
  radar.attach(httpServer, { redis_host: 'localhost', redis_port: 6379 });

  httpServer.listen(8000);

• node server.js

How to contribute

• Fork http://github.com/zendesk/radar, clone, make changes (including a Changelog update), commit, push, PR

Copyright and License

Copyright 2012, Zendesk Inc. Licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0, http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0