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When I first started building real-time chat applications, I quickly realized that using WebSockets was the way to go. However, most tutorials and documentation out there only scratch the surface of how to implement them. Last quarter, our team discovered that simply using WebSockets wasn't enough - we needed to consider things like connection pooling, message queuing, and error handling.
The Problem with Basic WebSocket Implementations
Most docs will show you how to set up a basic WebSocket connection using the ws library in Node.js. But what they don't tell you is how to handle disconnections, how to implement message queuing, and how to scale your application. We learned this the hard way when our application started experiencing issues with message delivery and connection stability.
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