Subscribing to ServiceBus for Notifications

Question

I've been doing some reading up this morning on developing client notification systems, and nodeJS seems to be part of my solution.

This question gave me some ideas, but I think what I want is a little more. And, it left me (after some research) with questions as to using Redis on a Windows server.

Communicating between Node.Js and ASP.NET MVC Application

So, to my question. I'm currently using MassTransit, and I'm happy with pub/sub in there, but how do I notify my clients? If I use nodejs to allow something like socketio to create connections with, I'm not seeing how I link node to my mvc layer.

I'm going to release this into a production Windows environment, so I can't use redis if it's not stable on Windows. It sounded like that would have been my missing link.

edit: I did intend to ask if couchdb is an option, and is it stable on windows as an alternative to redid?

Answer 1

You can use ZeroMQ, it can manage your pub-sub if you don't want to rely on Redis or you can just use MassTransit with the Node.js library from here: https://github.com/enix/MassTransit-JS

You really don't have to link your MVC app with your Socket.IO code, what you should do is keep them de-coupled and communicating through pub-sub. So each time you want to send a message to notify the users, you publish a message and the SocketIO logic gets it (being subscribed to a specific pubsub channel).

Another useful resource: Communicating between Node.Js and ASP.NET MVC Application