Questions tagged [websockets]
WebSocket is an API and a protocol for bi-directional, full-duplex communication that is closely associated with HTML5 and implemented in recent versions of most web browsers.
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Migrating a client from a REST API to a WebSocket one
I'm working on a system that integrates with several third party services via APIs. Those services require authentication.
Usually, the services are implemented as REST APIs using HTTP. My system ...
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Ensuring reliable delivery of messages over websockets?
I am building a comet service which will push new data to the client on mobile devices. For this, I am using websockets to deliver messages to the client.
The problem I am facing here is the ...
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Where do I put WebSocket handling code following the MVP pattern?
I am currently working on a Web Application. One of the objectives is to use the MVP (Model View Presentation) Design Pattern. We would like to use WebSockets to communicate between client and the ...
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Long lived connections
I have a custom non-blocking I/O server that supports (among other things) HTTP and websockets.
I have two timeout concepts for connections:
idle: connections that don't do anything are closed after ...
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How do I implement Socket.io Leaderboard using AWS Dynamo DB cost-effectively?
Every time a user submits a score, Socket.IO causes all the users get their leaderboard updated. This causes every single user connected through Socket.IO to read from the Dynamo DB database (every ...
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How to scale a slackbot app
I'm building an app for slack. While I've completed the POC, and everything works well for a single instance of the app, I'm having an issue of wrapping my mind around the scaling of it.
The specific ...
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Better solution instead of sending an image as binary through websocket for real time chat app
I'm building a real time chat application like Whatsapp. I have a websocket server with node+express, but I'm a bit confused on which flow I should use.
I'm considering sending the image as binary ...
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Websockets VS SSE
Suppose I have a service which requires to seek the database for different data once and in a while.
For this I have 2 or 3 SSE, each one with a different retry basetime (20000 miliseconds, 1000 ...
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advice for web communication protocol for “streaming” multiple JSON objects to multiple clients
As a hobby / to learn I am building an app in JavaScript using Node.js where a component of it will take input from a client, send it to a server, and then broadcast it to other clients. For ...
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How do I keep users of a PWA up to date when the application is in idle / hibernate?
So I'm currently building a .Net Blazor PWA, and I was wondering how the behaviour of my application looks like when it is installed on a mobile device, and the user is done with the app for the time ...
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How to do loadbalancing for collaborative editing with multi-az and geoproximity based routing policy
I am planning a project which has users collaboratively editing a document. To provide good latency to users, I am planning to deploy in multiple AWS regions with active-active mongodb replicas with ...
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Strategy for a worker microservice to communicate with GraphQL API
I am trying to find the best way for a microservice to communicate with GraphQL
Basic scenario:
Client subscribed to GraphQL via Subscriptions (WebSockets)
Client creates an Item using Mutation which ...
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SignalR Handle Multiple Clients in my Scenario
I currently have multiple clients who need to be informed when a customer creates a new order. Each customer is registered to an individual client and customers create orders on my website (each order ...
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How do I choose the right Websocket API
I'm doing a project where I have to control a live DALI controller and I'm sending data from the website to the controller with Websocket.
How do I know what Websocket to use?
At the moment I'm ...
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Are AJAX calls fully replaceable by requests sent via WebSockets?
I am redeveloping an application with the aim of going along with the more modern techniques. That is how I came across Socket.io, which I integrated with express.js.
I implemented live searching ...
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Multiple API calls potentially spawning multiple Websockets - Threading vs Async
I am designing a program with the flow as outlined below. Note, these are all network calls, there is no system I/O (hard drive).
Initially, multiple independent API calls need to happen - they don'...
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Best practice to maintain 2 servers - PHP and NodeJs
We have a Symfony backend server for our Android and iOS application. Recently we need to extend our application by supporting real time interaction such as chatting, and we decided to use NodeJs with ...
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How can I improve my websocket server's structure/flow?
I'm building a websocket server in python and I've hit a block regarding my program's flow and structure. Here's what I'm doing at the moment.
The program creates a instance of 'server' and listens ...
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Need to add websocket support to a single page that's running a wsgi service
Current setup. I have a legacy ERP system (Thoroughbred) and i then have several in house applications (CRM, WMS) and a website that interact with it via an xml server and straight ODBC connections. ...
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HTTP polling vs WebSocket for very small payloads that don't change often
In our team we are currently discussing which technology makes more sense for an upcoming feature - HTTP polling vs WebSocket.
To give some context:
We are developing a TV streaming application (...
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Ajax with interval vs WebSocket
I am currently developing a script for real estate which tries to find a match between your products and your clients needs. So I need to give the user a notification whenever a match is found, I am ...
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NodeJS Websocket Connection to Multiple Sockets
On my backend NodeJS server I need to be able to open up and keep open 1-20k websocket connections at the same time. I will receive a small amount of data from these websocket connections every few ...
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Where to store (keep) websockets events?
I have an application that uses MySQL as the database.
When a user open a specific page, the app sends a websocket event to indicate all the other team members that this user is seeing the current ...
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Using WebSockets for event notifications along side a REST API with scaleable architecture
I have a REST API which can be called with HTTP requests and is connected to a database to store resource state. There is a particular Parent resource that has a collection of Child resources and if a ...
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Creating a microservice REST api to offload CPU intensive tasks from node.js
I am building a game which has rooms with clients connected. Each room has it's own websocket.
At the end of the game, some calculation needs to be made about who won and it's a complicated math CPU ...
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Is it ok to have a mix of PubSub and Request/Reply in a WebSocket server (focus on unit-test)?
I'm using Node.JS to build a system where the data get consumed by WebSocket requests, instead of classical REST API calls. WebSockets were used for realtime bidirectional communication, but then were ...
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Is using web sockets between client-server to tranfer files the right approach? ( when multiple users connected on the same socket connection )
I am currently designing a system that lets users connect their Cloud Storage such as Google Drive, Dropbox etc and also to their physical filesystem (personal laptop/ ftp server etc.) and then can ...
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Potential Solutions to loading Javascript classes unknown at run time
I'm looking for some advice or potential options for loading javascript files in real time long after the DOM has fully loaded. Those javascript files need to be sent over a WebSocket connection, and ...
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Two Web clients and Java server (HTTP and Websockets)
I have 3 software components of a Web Application:
1. JS-client application 1 (JSApp1)
2. Java Spring (REST and Websockets) server app (SRV)
3. JS-client application 2 (JSApp2)
My current task is to ...
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Django and websockets: Channels vs Socket.io vs other?
In my Django web app I want to monitor my remote Raspberry PI clients - up to hundreds - using WebSockets: I have to check in their status in real-time (online, working, offline etc.), send commands ...
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Android Chat Application Architecture with websocket
I'm trying to build chat application in Android (future maybe webapp also) using websockets. The purpose of this project is to familiar with websockets, get know websockets and real time applications. ...
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How to make distinction between user establishing another connection and different user, under same network, establishing new connection
Sorry, the title of my question might be a little confusing. I have this online game that utilizes websocket connections for the users to initialize so my server can broadcast messages to all them in ...
