Long polling and webhooks
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I remember reading about how the newly facebook chat was made using long pollings, years ago. Now with HTML5 with have sockets and webhooks made easy. I wonder if they’re still using long polling now…
Anyway, Zapier. A start up that is making APIs easy, is writing a lot of interesting tutorials these last few months. Their new Chapter 7 was released and it’s about polling and web hooks. And as usual it’s great!
https://zapier.com/learn/apis/chapter-7-real-time-communication
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