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Websocket Essentials: Building apps with HTML5 websockets

By : Varun Chopra
Book Image

Websocket Essentials: Building apps with HTML5 websockets

By: Varun Chopra

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (13 chapters)
WebSocket Essentials – Building Apps with HTML5 WebSockets
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
6
Enhancing HTML5 Web Application Development Using Modern Tools
Index

Chapter 2. Getting Started with WebSockets

Client server communication is one of the most important parts of any web application. Data communication between the server and client has to be smooth and fast so that the user can have an excellent experience. If we look into the traditional methods of server communication, we will find that those methods were limited and were not really the best solutions. These methods have been used by people for a long period of time and made HTML the second choice for data communication.