Upgrading to Sente
Now that we’ve done a scratch implementation of WebSockets, let’s look at a popular Clojure(Script) WebSockets library: Sente.[62]
Sente is a little more complicated than our toy implementation, but it brings a lot of great features in exchange.
- Ajax Fallback Support
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Sente automatically switches to Ajax polling if WebSockets aren’t available.
- Keep-Alives
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Sends messages periodically to prevent connections from dropping and to kill stale connections.
- Message Buffering
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Leverages core.async to buffer messages for us.
- Encoding
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Serializes and de-serializes data for us.
- Security
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Supports Ring anti-forgery middleware.
Let’s add the dependency to our project.clj and get started:
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