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by jdp23 4574 days ago
Does any have experiences with Primus they can share?

The idea of being able to insulate the rest of the code from the specifics of which lower-level library I'm using is very attractive. On the other hand, any abstraction layer can introduce bugs in its own right. Thoughts about the tradeoff?
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corford 4574 days ago
I'm using it now for a project that's due to go live early next year and so far it's been a dream. Case in point, I ran in to a bug on Monday and it turned out to be with engine.io itself rather than Primus. The workaround was a one line code change swapping the transformer to something else.

Arnout Kazemier (the lead dev) is a really nice guy and when I pinged him about the egine.io bug, he pushed out a change to Primus 24 hours later that worked around the bug and let me continue to use engine.io as the transformer.

YMMV but so far I've no regrets using it.

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TheMakeA 4574 days ago
I was using socket.io until about two weeks ago when I ran into some reconnecting issues that weren't fixed. I decided to use Primus + Multiplex + Emitter. I have only run into one issue so far with Multiplex on IE10, but that was fixed quickly. Otherwise the package seems rather solid.
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