Hi, I'm just getting into the javascript and node.js end of things. My preliminary understanding is that node.js is a server ( basically a socket) that communicates with javascript running in the browser. So theoretically, shouldn't you be able to communicate directly with node.js thru a socket program, assuming you send the right data to node.js. Just as though you can communicate with a standard web server with a socket program, as arduous as it may be.