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by anderspitman 1938 days ago
I think I missed something. Why can't you use node for SSE?
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viklove 1938 days ago
I can, but why would I limit myself to one-way communication when I can have bidirectional communication?
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anderspitman 1938 days ago
You didn't cite bidi as your reason for choosing WS in your last comment, you cited scaling and node vs ruby.

But to answer this new question:

* You can have bidi without WS.

* Because WS is more complicated.

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viklove 1935 days ago
> You didn't cite bidi as your reason for choosing WS in your last comment, you cited scaling and node vs ruby.

Because I was answering this question: "What's wrong with normal HTTP requests for client->server streams?"

> You can have bidi without WS.

Only by combining HTTP (which doesn't scale because my api server runs rails) and SSE (which does scale). If I want scaling bidirectional communication, I need websockets.

> Because WS is more complicated.

More complicated than SSE? I don't think so.

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