Chapter 10. Creating Real-time Web Apps
The web has offered an ever more dynamic and interactive user experience. Throughout the 90s, most of the web consisted of static pages or server-side rendered pages. Frames and iframes made it possible to reload parts of the page in a limited way. When Ajax appeared in the mid-2000s, it allowed pages to be much more engaging. Client-side JavaScript could now request data from the server on demand and update the page dynamically.
Real-time web applications are the next step in this evolution. These are applications where the server pushes data to clients without the clients needing to initiate a request. This allows a user to be notified of new information or for users to interact with each other in real ...
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