What are the factors you would consider when choosing between Socket.io and Pusherapp? Important considerations include: integration with existing systems like rails/django, ease of setup, ease of development.
What are the factors you would consider when choosing between Socket.io and Pusherapp? Important considerations include: integration with existing systems like rails/django, ease of setup, ease of development.
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Reset to default 9There are a few differentiating factors, these are:
- Do you want to manage the scaling and hosting of your realtime infrastructure?
- Do you want to receive data from your clients in realtime?
- Do you want to be able to interact with the data between clients?
There's basically a few different use-cases for websockets, and at present no hosted solution can offer you two of those things. The current use cases I can think of are:
- Server
--[ WebSocket ]->Clients - Server
<-[ WebSocket ]--Clients - Server
<-[ WebSocket ]->Clients
Services like PusherApp target the first use-case, as it's fairly difficult to support the other two options with a hosted service. (Read: while it's difficult, it's just a bit impractical and doesn't give you the full benefits of using websockets.)