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luhn on March 4, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: HTTPWTF

imo, Server-Sent Events are the better solution for realtime updates. Sometimes you need the stateful bidirectional protocol WebSockets offer, but most of the time HTTP for RPC and SSE for streaming updates gets you where you need to go with standard HTTP, no special protocols.

yencabulator on March 5, 2021 [–]

There's one scenario where websockets win: When you don't want your client-to-server calls to get reordered in-flight.

Unfortunately the browser javascript "fetch API" still doesn't implement streaming request bodies. If it did, websockets would be obsolete.

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