I am happy to announce that we have open sourced Express.io, a realtime-web framework for node.js. Express.io is a minimalist framework for using Socket.io and Express together in a sane and coherent way. One cool feature is that Express.io is a drop in replacement for express. Instead of require('express') you can just throw require('express.io'). The only difference being that you now have access to all of the express.io awesomeness.

Here is the cannonical example:

app = require('express.io')()
app.http().io()

// build realtime-web app

app.listen(7076)

To learn more check out the complete feature set, documentation, and code on github.