Tutorial 2 – Host a Free WebSocket Server on Heroku. Control TD with a Website using WebSockets

Hey! In this beginner series, we’ll go over how to use WebSockets to control TouchDesigner with a website in real-time and vice versa. We’ll cover step by step how to implement everything from scratch. We’ll also cover some programming concepts assuming little to no experience with programming.

In this tutorial, we’ll go over how to host your WebSocket server on Heroku. All you need is a free login to https://github.com and https://heroku.com/.

Link to the WebSocket Server: https://github.com/torinmb/Socket-Server-Template

The final component that we’ll create in TouchDesigner is available for download on my Patreon: https://patreon.com/tblankensmith.

The website shown in the first tutorial is open-sourced and available for free here: https://glitch.com/edit/#!/websocket-td-example. If you make a login you can ‘remix’ the website and have your own version available for use.

0:00 Intro
0:29 Forking the Source Code on GitHub
0:50 Hosting the WebSocket Server on Heroku