Audience

Enterprises interested in a bidirectional and low-latency communication solution for every platform

About Socket.IO

In most cases, the connection will be established with WebSocket, providing a low-overhead communication channel between the server and the client. Rest assured! In case the WebSocket connection is not possible, it will fall back to HTTP long-polling. And if the connection is lost, the client will automatically try to reconnect. Scale to multiple servers and send events to all connected clients with ease. Socket.IO is a library that enables low-latency, bidirectional and event-based communication between a client and a server. It is built on top of the WebSocket protocol and provides additional guarantees like a fallback to HTTP long-polling or automatic reconnection. WebSocket is a communication protocol that provides a full-duplex and low-latency channel between the server and the browser. There are several Socket.IO server implementations available. And client implementations in most major languages.

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Yes, Socket.IO offers API access
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