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by viklove 1936 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.