HTML5 Websockets API Introduction and Tools

Written by mozilla | Published 2020/05/18
Tech Story Tags: hackernoon-top-story | tutorial | website-development | web-development | mozilla | mdn-documentation | html5 | websockets

TLDR HTML5 Websockets API is an advanced technology that makes it possible to open a two-way interactive communication session between the user's browser and a server. With this API, you can send messages to a server and receive event-driven responses without having to poll the server for a reply. While a WebSocket connection is functionally somewhat similar to standard Unix-style sockets, they are not related. The WebSocket API is a free software community founded in 1998 by members of Netscape and Mozilla.via the TL;DR App
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Published by HackerNoon on 2020/05/18
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