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by kraih 2832 days ago
It's "real-time web", which mostly means WebSockets these days. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_web) But in the case of Mojolicious it is also used to highlight certain optimizations that make it very easy to use WebSockets and HTTP side by side in the same web application. https://mojolicious.org/perldoc/Mojolicious/Guides/Cookbook#...
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mncharity 2832 days ago
Congrats on the release.

> mostly means WebSockets these days

And some WebRTC. Sub-100 ms latencies. 200? Voice and video chat, and gaming. npm's Primus. PubNub.

>> As a web developer for over a decade, I don't recall seeing a web framework described with that before and have no idea how to interpret it.

'Realtime web' has been a phrase for a decade-ish - used to be server push. Google is fruitful; the Wikipedia article... needs help.

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