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How Socket.io can be used for Real-time Web Application Development

Author: Ankit Jain
by Ankit Jain
Posted: Nov 21, 2017

There are many real-time JavaScript libraries available for the development of web applications. Socket.io is gradually increasing to provide real-time feedback communication for web developers to receive and send timely data bits via a TCP communication socket. As it is compatible with all the cross-browsers, the data is transmitted throughout the web application without any sending requests and restrictions. This makes the Socket.io an important JavaScript and networking library for assisting the functions of Node.js in the web application development.

Socket.io is a bi-directional event-based communication layer which mainly abstracts the long-polling codes of AJAX and WebSockets and merges it into a single web application interface by using an Engine.io and other web networking layer protocols. The API of Socket.io is very much similar to the API of Node.js as they both are the event-driven triggers in the web application development.

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The communication through the web applications between servers and client systems generally consists of two components: a web library for client-side that runs in the web browser and the library for server-side for Node.js having almost identical APIs. Socket.io generally uses web-polling to be stored as the feedback-option and the WebSocket protocol in the same web interface. Socket.io can also be used as a simple wrapper driven by real-time events for WebSockets. It also provides multiple broadcasting to real-time sockets that are directly associated with every client systems to store data having an asynchronous I/O and can be implemented with the java package manager npm software tool.

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Author: Ankit Jain

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