yeah im having the same EADDRINUSE error when trying to run NodBB in debugger mode (WebStorm)

I would love a solution or a workaround because I've been trying for a couple days to try and get this working. I just want to be able to debug NodeBB's plugins and core components

PS. I've tried WebStorm, node-inspector and strong-cli. I've tried them all with latest node.js and also version 0.10

would it be possible to create a plugin that allows a user to send another user an attachment (zip, pdf, doc etc..) through the chat? If anybody could point me in the right direction that would be awesome! thanks

@yariplus that's awesome..! any pointers on how you did it?

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone has successfully integrated NodeBB into their own web application?

See, I have an web application that works online and offline. Users login to the application and do stuff. What I'm missing in this application is a 'Home' screen. I was thinking of using NodeBB as the 'Home" screen and also benefiting from all the features that NodeBB provides, like Instant Messaging for example. I would also like for my existing application to be able to act on hooks that NodeBB fires. But I'm not sure how the integration of NodeBB with an existing application would work? Or if anything like this would be possible?

Thanks,
Armando

finally got it working!! thanks @esiao couldn't have done it without you..!
I changed 'Chat' index.html to look like this"

<script src="http://127.0.0.1:4567/socket.io/socket.io.js"></script>
<script>
    var socket = io.connect('http://127.0.0.1:4567');
    socket.emit('topics.test', {data: "some data"}, function(err, result) {
        alert(result);
    });
</script>

I removed the line that I added to NodeBB's /src/socketio/index.js

And used @Schamper post from here where he explains how to use websockets in your plugins. So thanks @Schamper for the post it helped a lot..!

Hi everyone,
So, I'm able to write a plugin that can create a topic in a certain category whenever NodeBB fires a particular hook, using this:

var Topics = require('../../src/topics');

Topics.post({
    uid: 1,
    title: 'this is a title',
    content: 'this is the content of the message', 
    cid: 27}, 
function (err, result) {
    if (!err) {
        console.log("successfully created topic.");
    }
});

I was wondering if there is a way to have this particular block of code in a seperate javascript file and whenever that file is executed have it create the topic?

nvm, I got it working. I was confused how async.each() worked..!

here's what I ended up with:

                function getMainPost(topics, callback) {
                    posts.getPostFields(topics.mainPid, ["content"], function (err, data) {
                        topics.content = data.content;
                        callback(null);
                    });

                }

            function getRecentTopics(category, callback) {
                categories.getCategoryTopics(category.cid, 0, parseInt(category.numRecentReplies, 10), uid, function (err, data) {
                    var topics = data.topics;
                    category.topics = topics;
                    category.topic_count = topics.length;

                    async.each(topics, getMainPost, function (err) {
                        callback(null);
                    });

                });
            }

            async.each(categoryData, getRecentTopics, function (err) {
                next(err, categoryData);
            });

@Kowlin yeah hopefully! I'm actually gonna take another stab at it right now and will update if I make some progress

@pidjab thanks! will work with that

nvm, just figured out that it is normal, it literally says so in a comment

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/blob/a054353b6c9896693bfb9c64e7e389380bff1ea1/public/src/sockets.js#L25