Write the shims.server

[aurium]

That must to work sooner as possible!

[ooflorent]

I think we have a problem here.

All games should be able to run without the sandbox... The current design makes things really complicated. Last year, every server-side game had to serve its files using http and fs.

Here is a snippet from last year winning entry:

var fs = require('fs');
var app = require('http').createServer(handler),
    io = require('socket.io').listen(app);

function handler(req, res) {
  fs.readFile(/* ... */);
  /* ... */
}

So, should we serve game files or let games do it? If we serve the files then the game will not be runnable in standalone...

[aurium]

Well, we can consider this year the environment is not node itself, but this sandbox.

I believe the sandbox-io may be called by require('socket.io') inside the sandbox, also the same to the http and any shimed module... but that was not planned before. :-/

Can you implement it too on the sandboxer? So the sandbox and real node will not be so different.