Following my blog post from earlier this week where I showed how to make SignalR work in Sitecore SPEAK, I thought of another solution to the same issue which is much more streamlined with SPEAK. The issue which I hacked my way through was that the RequireJS implementation in SPEAK requires that a JavaScript file ends with .js if it does not then .js will be added automatically. ...
During the Sitecore Hackathon we decided to implement a chat app for Sitecore editors so it is possible to send text messages to other online editors. To do this we wanted to use SignalR and SPEAK for the UI part. Setting up SignalR and creating the SPEAK layout was done quickly but it quickly became obvious that using the two together could be trickier than anticipated. The issue was not with SPEAK itself or SignalR but with RequireJS and the order in which Javascript is loaded. ...