SIMPLIFYING COMPLEXITY: THE JOURNEY FROM WEBSOCKETS TO HTTP STREAMS

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

This article discusses the need to capture tablet screen gestures and transmit them to a browser for local actions. To do these actions, the author initially considered using WebSockets for message exchange due to their suitability for handling streams of messages. However, WebSockets were hard to test and debug, so the author eventually moved towards developing with HTTP streaming. HTTP streaming is a method that Airbnb uses to improve its web performance too.