Web Sockets

Learn how to make web socket calls using Gating.

In our previous lesson, we learned about assertions. In this lesson, we will learn about web sockets.

What is a web socket?

Web sockets allow us to open a two-way interactive communication channel between the client and a server so that you can send messages to a server and receive event-driven responses without polling the server for a reply.

A simple example would be a chat application, where the users at either end (sender and receiver) can send one or more messages to each other without waiting for each other’s response.

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