Host SignalR along with NancyFX inside console application

[Daniel Lang]

Hi,

I want to host a single web-page with async updates enabled in a console application. I'd like to use Signalr, NancyFX and an OWIN host like Gate or Kayak if necessary at all (alternative is self-hosted).
I've seen that David has done some work to decouple SignalR from AspNet, so I hope this combination is possible. However, I have practically no experience with any of these technologies, so I wonder if I'm on the correct path at all.

This is my context:
I have a long running operation (data-syncing in fact) that runs either inside a console application or as a windows service. The operation produces a lot of log messages. At the moment, I have a self-hosted WCF service with a duplex contract, so that I can push the messages to the clients (stupid simple WPF-applications just to show the messages as they arrive) in an async fashion. My goal is to simply deployment by killing the client applications and replacing them with a very simple one-page web application that is hostes by the 'server' itself on port 8080 or so. IIS is not an option, because it would complicate deployment and require our customers to have IIS installed on their machines.

Is this possible?

Cheers, Daniel

[Demis Bellot]

In the SignalR release notes Damian says its now decoupled from its ASP.NET host:

http://damianedwards.wordpress.com/2012/01/30/signalr-0-4-released/

• Decoupled from ASP.NET, can now host on other servers, e.g. OWIN, HttpListener, etc.

Although the best place to ask is in jabbr.net (its very active) where @dfowler for SignalR and @TheCodeJunkie or @GrumpyDev for NancyFx

http://jabbr.net/#/rooms/signalr 

http://jabbr.net/#/rooms/nancyfx

Although Andreas (TheCodeJunkie) is on this list so maybe able to help when he wakes up :)

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[Grumpydev]

This is something I'd like to spike out, but currently haven't got the time. In my head I was seeing part of the url space being reserved for signalr and nancy handling the rest.

I don't think it would be massively complicated.. in theory ;)

[Louis DeJardin]

That would be a great sample. The .Map(...) middleware should do exactly that, too - sending everything with a path prefix to SignalR, with the rest flowing along normally.

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Subject: Re: Host SignalR along with NancyFX inside console application

[James Sconfitto]

i worked up a sample of this in order to try to learn how Owin and SignalR work. Right now it's built into my fork of the SignalR project. It seems flaky and slow to me (but i dont understand the pieces very well), but for the most part it's working. Anyone have any input or suggestions on improvements? It's up here in my NancyDemo branch: https://github.com/jugglingnutcase/SignalR/tree/NancyDemo

i've tried to pull it out into a standalone demo, but every time i tried that i would get confused between what's in NuGet and the latest development versions of SignalR and it made learning the whole thing a lot tougher.