We’re excited to announce that WebSocket functionality is now available on Heroku in public beta. We can’t wait to see the powerful and creative real-time apps you’ll build. In this post, we show how to get up and running with WebSockets and demonstrate the functionality with two sample apps you can get on GitHub.
Editor's Note: WebSockets support is now Generally Available. The heroku labs:enable websockets command is no longer required for the example app below.
Getting Started
For full documentation of WebSocket support on Heroku, visit the Dev Center.
WebSocket functionality is available as part of Heroku Labs. First make sure you have the Heroku CLI installed. Then enable the...