The recent emergence of the WebSocket protocol has given developers a new tool to deploy dynamic real time connections and content between the client and server. Unfortunately, the tedious HTTP request/response model that was designed to facilitate the the internet’s early role as a distributed, static file system, has been folded into most libraries that support this new protocol. In order to write a functional real-time web application, a programmer must first learn these older protocols as well as the associated syntax for initializing a server, establishing socket connections, and other verbose functions associated with the traditional client-server architecture. This is tedious, time consuming and now thanks to Spliff, often unnecessary.
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