CHAPTER 9
Real-Time Apps with WebSocket, Socket.IO, and DerbyJS
Real-time apps are becoming more and more widespread in gaming, social media, various tools, services, and news. The main factor contributing to this trend is that technologies have become much better. They allow for a greater bandwidth to transmit data, and for more calculations to process and retrieve the data.
HTML5 pioneered the new standard of real-time connections called WebSocket. At the same time, on the server side, Node.js has a highly efficient, nonblocking input/output platform that is very well suited for the task of being a back-end pair to the browser JavaScript and ...
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