[shahinghasemi]

> At NodeBB, we ended up relying on websockets for almost everything, which was a mistake.

Would you please elaborate on the challenges/disadvantages you've encountered in comparison to REST/HTTP?

[julianlam]

Nothing major, just browser support at the beginning, reverse proxy support (which is no longer an issue), but the big one was extensibility.

As it turns out, while almost anyone can fire off a POST request, not many people know how to wire up a socket.io client.