Writing a chat application with popular web applications stacks like
LAMP (PHP) has traditionally been very hard. It involves polling the
server for changes, keeping track of timestamps, and it’s a lot slower
than it should be.
Sockets have traditionally been the solution around which most
realtime chat systems are architected, providing a bi-directional
communication channel between a client and a server.
Here is the example of my first basic chat application using socket.io:
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Tags:
socket.io