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Re:You might not need WebSockets by theteapot on Friday April 11, 2025 @08:11PM (#43660080)
Reads like a series of strawman arguments if you replace "WebSockets" with socket.io.

  - "messages aren’t transactional": You can process request and return a value to sender in socket.io application layer. Is that transactional enough?
  - "If you’re sending messages that don’t necessarily need to be acknowledged (like a heartbeat or keyboard inputs), then Websockets make a great fit". But socket.io has acknowledgements.
  - "When a new WebSocket connection is initiated, your server has to handle the HTTP “upgrade” request handshake.". You can bypass handshake and go straight to WS even in Websockets, and if you don't socket.io handles upgrade for you pretty nicely so you not parsing HTTP header ..
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Re:You might not need WebSockets by hntrl on Friday April 11, 2025 @08:16PM (#43660110)
It's a good thing I didn't then :shrug:

Websockets are a web standard, socket.io is a userland framework

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Re:You might not need WebSockets by theteapot on Saturday April 12, 2025 @05:06AM (#43662693)
It's like arguing web components suck because there is all these problems you need to solve, while pretending web component frameworks (React, Vue, Angular, ..) that solve all those problems don't exist.
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