Building a Real-Time Chat App Using JavaScript and WebSockets
Why Real-Time? Why WebSockets? Ever tried building a chat app with just regular HTTP requests? If you have, you know it quickly turns into a game of polling roulette—clients pinging servers every few seconds, hoping for fresh messages. It’s clunky, inefficient, and downright frustrating. That’s where WebSockets swoop in like a breath of fresh air. […]








