Old, unmaintained tutorial

Please use https://github.com/ninenines/cowboy/tree/master/examples/websocket instead.

Cowboy websocket tutorial

To compile this example you need rebar in your PATH.

Type the following command:

$ rebar get-deps compile

You can then start the Erlang node with the following command:

./start.sh

Then point your browser to the indicated URL to open a websocket client. Not all browsers support websockets. It was tested with Chromium.