Discussion on: You don't need express to get started with socket.io

Replies for: Its true, you don't. But socket.io implements WebSocket backend and frontend with many fallbacks for probably every possible browser you can imagine.

I know but you do not need that when you get started with real-time communication, which I presumed the topic is all about.

I'm pro learning the base technology first (vanilla web socket) then learn socketIO (which solve a few problems you will encounter in production).

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Discussion on: You don't need express to get started with socket.io

Replies for: Its true, you don't. But socket.io implements WebSocket backend and frontend with many fallbacks for probably every possible browser you can imagine.