1) Why is the WebSockets protocol better? WebSockets is better for situations that involve low-latency communication especially for low latency for client to server messages. For server to client data you can get fairly low latency using long-held connections and chunked transfer. However, this doesn’t help with client to server latency which requires a new … Read more
Getting the ball rolling with this community wiki answer. Feel free to edit me with your improvements. ws WebSocket server and client for node.js. One of the fastest libraries if not the fastest one. websocket-node WebSocket server and client for node.js websocket-driver-node WebSocket server and client protocol parser node.js – used in faye-websocket-node faye-websocket-node WebSocket … Read more
Misconceptions There are few common misconceptions regarding WebSocket and Socket.IO: The first misconception is that using Socket.IO is significantly easier than using WebSocket which doesn’t seem to be the case. See examples below. The second misconception is that WebSocket is not widely supported in the browsers. See below for more info. The third misconception is … Read more
Websockets and SSE (Server Sent Events) are both capable of pushing data to browsers, however they are not competing technologies. Websockets connections can both send data to the browser and receive data from the browser. A good example of an application that could use websockets is a chat application. SSE connections can only push data … Read more
In the examples below the client is the browser and the server is the webserver hosting the website. Before you can understand these technologies, you have to understand classic HTTP web traffic first. Regular HTTP: A client requests a webpage from a server. The server calculates the response The server sends the response to the … Read more