Local.js: An IPC framework for open-architecture Web applications

[wesleytodd]

> Imagine if a Web application were more like your operating system. You could run programs that add features, choose where your data goes, and share your changes with other users.

Awesome.

[camus2]

meh,it's the definition of SOA.

[rpedela]

I don't quite understand what this is for? I get that you can create pipelines, but at a higher level when would one need this functionality?

[pfraze]

It's for building Web applications that can be modified independently of the host service by the users. Think of applications that are plugin heavy - Emacs, Vim, Sublime, Photoshop, 3dsmax, MS Excel (in its way). Similar things could be done with, for instance, user-pluggable forums. The goal is to use Worker VM containers and permissioning so that plugins are safe to share between users.

[JohnDotAwesome]

Really loving the piping example. It would be interesting to see more small composable utility web services out there. A sort of standard library of APIs

[hypertexthero]

Upvote for the Pink Floyd reference.

[zemo]

hmm I can't seem to figure out whether this does or doesn't have any support for HTTP pipelining.

[pfraze]

HTTPL multiplexes all of its messages over a single channel (which postMessage is) and so it supports pipelining and full-duplex.

[abhishek99]

Why not just use sockets?