Chapter 9. Pushing Notifications with WebSockets
In this chapter, you’ll learn how to make applications more interactive by adding WebSockets. WebSockets allow you to push live changes from a server into a browser.
Introducing WebSockets
In the interest of finding ways to develop more interactive, more immersive applications, browsers now support a new protocol in addition to HTTP: WebSockets. HTTP was pretty much the only way for developers to communicate with browsers for a long time. It’s a reliable, relatively quick protocol that developers got by with.
The major downside to HTTP is that it’s one-way for web applications. The browser cannot be an HTTP server, which means that the client must initiate any communication. This works well for ...
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