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Anzhari Purnomo

Great article! By the way, any particular reason you choose socket.io instead of ws? I’m weighing the two options for my next project.

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K • Edited

Because I already knew it and I wanted to write that article in under an hour, haha.

You could also look into Socket-Cluster, heard good things about it.

Depending on the requirements you could also look into managed services like AWS AppSync and Google Firebase.

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Anzhari Purnomo

Thanks for your recommendation!

I ended up using Socket.IO. It feels like it have enough built-in features that I'll need on my project. ws feels like too low-level and I suppose I'll have to develop a lot of boilerplate for my use-case.

The extra performance boost is nice from ws, but I suppose I wouldn't need it in the current state of the project.

Anyway, thanks again!