Socket.IO [http://socket.io] enables real-time event-based communication between one or more clients and a server. It works on every platform, browser or device and is fast and reliable. It's often used in analytics, document collaboration, streaming and instant messaging. Socket.IO is smart, it uses WebSockets if available.…
So what are WebSockets? A WebSocket is a protocol that allows communication over TCP in web browsers and web servers. In most instances you have a server and a client and they communicate with each other over a socket. You might remember I created a basic Socket.IO tutorial [https:…
Socket.IO [http://socket.io/] enables real-time event-based communication. What that means is that we can communicate to the server from the client and in return the server can talk back to the client. Socket.IO uses WebSockets when it can and has failovers if the browser does not support…