Websockets are hard, getting them right is harder.
on top of them adding stuff like
reconnection,authentication,heartbeats,buffering,connection statuses,lost connection alerts,
and other application requirements. makes them even harder and error prone
throughout my career I’ve seen countless websocket implementations that work but have bugs & edge-cases, even the best ones aren’t immune like this liveblocks bug that i helped found and fix : issue & PR.
Enters Socket
Socket is an open source reconnecting websocket library by resocket.
Socket is a DX focused websocket library. that makes it easy to add all the above mentioned features and much more.
Socket is mostly compatible with standard websocket apis, so it will feel like just using a normal websocket. here’s an example
import { Socket } from "@resocket/socket";
const socket = new Socket("wss://my-socket-server.com/");
socket.send("hello world");
the above example creates a reconnecting websocket that will automatically reconnect when the connection is dropped,
you can also configure heartbeats (ping/pong), with just a single line of config
const socket = new Socket("wss://my-socket-server.com/", [], {
heartbeatInterval: 30000, //will send a ping every 30 seconds
});
That’s it for the short intro, you can learn more about socket here.
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