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by ctvo 619 days ago
> But it is simple :)

I think you may mean easy. It may be _easy_, but it's not simple. There are so many more moving pieces, failure modes, operational issues now to consider. Websocket connections aren't free.

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I guess I just have to disagree. My experience is that it is robust, and removes an entire category of problems that appear when your state is spread across the back- and frontend.

As someone else mentioned, SSE is a somewhat simpler protocol that achieves the same purpose. Same idea though.