Chapter 1. Understanding the Basics
In this chapter, we will cover:
- Adding a Hub to an ASP.NET project
- Adding a Hub to a self-hosting application
- Connecting to a Hub from a JavaScript client
- Connecting to a Hub from a .NET application
Introduction
SignalR is an amazing framework that delivers a real-time and bidirectional messaging platform. SignalR provides several options to reach its goal, but in this chapter we'll start simple and use the most basic API to set up a persistent and real-time channel: Hubs. A Hub is a special class that SignalR will expose to all the connected clients, allowing them to make Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) to it. Inside the Hub, the developer will also have a set of special objects to use in order to perform calls back ...
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