Message from JavaScript discussions
March 2017
— Not that this group isn't dead anyway
Websockets are a thing you can open and send stuff across and the thing you are sending to can send stuff back
— But unlike other things where you send stuff and it sends stuff back it can keep the connection open and send stuff to you even if you don't ask
— That's the tl;dr version
— Or python
— If you want to connect two clients directly, you can use webrtc
— Thanks, and no problem at all
— Maybe, maybe it's bad that web rely only on using JavaScript on the client side, and as JavaScript Fan Boy still I would love to see web navigators supporting other language or standard.
On the other side JS had born to be the web client programming language.
— It is really that bad?
— It is a persistent TCP connection, which for now you can establish via an HTTP Upgrade request
— You can use many different communication protocols over websockets as well
— It is also bidirectional, which means a server may push data to a client