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Real-Time Phoenix
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Real-Time Phoenix

by Stephen Bussey
March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
328 pages
7h 58m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Why WebSockets?

It used to be difficult to write real-time systems due to technology limitations at the communication layer. Developers of real-time systems had to make trade-offs between performance, cost, and maintenance; the complicated techniques used often pushed browsers to the limit of their capabilities. Those techniques were highly dependent on the particular web browser used. This meant that a client would be working correctly in one browser but not work in another.

The RFC for the WebSocket protocol emerged with the HTML5 spec in 2011 to solve the challenges of real-time web communication. It took a bit of time for WebSockets to gain support, but they are now supported natively by all major browsers and can be considered mature for ...

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