I recently found my way to Pusher App and then quickly made Pusher Chat which inspired me to really get used to using Pusher in some of my apps. A few of my friends got hold of this awesome tool and I kept hearing from people that it looked a little confusing to get your head around at the start, and they kept asking “Why don’t I setup my own socket server?” at which I tried to explain the benefits.

So, I have knocked up a nice little demonstration / how-to kind of tool that is covered in comments in the code to make sense of what was going on. You can get hold of it here on github or take a look at the demo on my site. Feel free to fork me on github if you have any new ideas for the tool.

If you find any bugs or think something could be explained better, shoot me an email or reply (@tarnfeld) me on twitter and i’ll be happy to help :-)

Hope this helps out some developers and gets them integrating this really awesome service into their awesome apps!

P.S. The service is invite only so you may have to request access from @pusherapp if you don’t already have an account.