Socket for Mac
Socket for Mac

Your Mac

Run a socket from the Slash Socket app — great for development and small live sites.

The app is a full server: whatever manifest it holds is served at /live on its port, alongside the classic Socket.IO events. Field data is saved on your Mac and survives restarts.

  1. Start the server in Slash Socket. It serves the starter manifest until you give it one.
  2. Give it a manifest: in the Fields tab, Import JSON… — or define the socket on slash.tools (Dashboard → Socket) with Runs on set to this Mac, and it arrives with the next check-in (Domain → Check Now to fetch it now).
  3. Connect a page with the import line from Fields → Connect a page.

To reach it from the internet, the Mac needs a way in. Slash Socket offers two, and the Overview's Public access row tells you which link is broken when one isn't working — see Reaching the internet.

Pages served over https can only open wss:// connections. A tunnel gives you that for free; port forwarding needs a certificate, which Slash Socket gets from Let's Encrypt once a domain points at your Mac.