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Comment by korkybuchek a day ago

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> socket.io is probably one of the most unnecessary libraries on this planet. Websockets are already as simple as possible.

Eh... While I agree that socket.io is one of those libraries you could probably "write" in an afternoon, and Websockets are simple, there are a couple of things that are kinda painful to rewrite time after time:

  - keepalives to detect dead sockets
  - reconnection logic with backoff
  - ability to switch to long-polling for weird environments
  - basic multiplexing/namespacing
Karrot_Kream 21 hours ago

Websockets already have keepalives. Everything but long polling is doable in a few hours and can probably be one-shotted by an LLM. For long-polling, you can just drop down to Fetch calls.

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  • sourcemap 19 hours ago

    This is true. Just a few days ago I had Claude one-shot some WebSocket utilities for reconnect and message queueing. It took 2 minutes.

    I've written countless WebSocket wrappers in the past (similar aversion to socket.io as others in this thread). The one-shot output was perfect. Certainly better than my patience would've allowed.

    Maybe socket.io is doing something fancy on the server side, but for clients, it's absolutely overkill.

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