Questions tagged [socket.io]
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Do I actually need a message broker or are websockets enough?
The website I am building has a real-time messaging component. The backend is built with Flask and I have integrated Flask-SocketIO to handle Websocket connections when users are on the messaging page.
My current infrastructure is pretty simple.…
turnip
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What is the point of rooms in socket.io?
I was wondering what the purpose of rooms is. See: https://socket.io/docs/rooms-and-namespaces/
You can basically mimic join and leave with just socket.on and socket.off
Take for example:
(no room)
client:
socket.on('chat', (data) => {
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A. L
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Connect two users of a socket.io Lobby
first of all i will explain you what i want to do.
I have a Web application where are multiple rooms like Room1, Room2, Room3…
Currently active users can join in one of these Rooms by clicking on it. I handle this with socket.io rooms. That means,…
Ryuk
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Socket.io behind api gateway
So the architecture I am currently working with, we have an api-gateway that gets all the requests and publishes them to our Eventsystem/ or directly to our essential services(auth, etc). Now we want to add a Socketbased Microservice that consumes…
Daniel Hoppe Alvarez
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Are AJAX calls fully replaceable by requests sent via WebSockets?
I am redeveloping an application with the aim of going along with the more modern techniques. That is how I came across Socket.io, which I integrated with express.js.
I implemented live searching with datatables using socket.io for the filtering &…
Maikkeyy
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Notify thousands of clients with websockets, are there any caveats?
I'm building a web app, where users can create locations, which are displayed on a map.
Also, users can click on the map objects in order to get to a place details page where further interactions with the server can be done.
Users also can delete…
Getter Jetter
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Do TCP Sockets need validity/security checks?
I am currently building a distributed system that consists of two separated nodes, connected over wireless Lan.
The processes communicate over a bidirectional TCP Socket and JSON messages.
For the application, it is quite crucial that all…
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Sending push notifications to android by nodejs server
I am having the requirement in my project, that nodejs server has to send the notification (kind of push notification) to our mobile, and user( or mobile holder ) have to act on that notification like processing some action, and post back to the…
Naveen Kumar
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NodeJS SocketIO Multiplayer Multiple Game Room Management
I am making a multiplayer card game and am using NodeJS as my server with SocketIO.
My question is how should I be managing multiple game rooms (say an n number of game rooms) ?
Currently I have it setup as the server holds a JavaScript object which…
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Performance comparison of Legacy VB6 Software vs Node.js and React.js
My company just started a new production management software by using serial communication to scales. My company has already developed the software using VB6 in 2006 and keep using that outdated system until now.
The new software will be a…
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