Native support for Socket.IO on Azure, scalability issue no more

This article talks about a popular open-source library called “Socket.IO”. It’s often used to build real-time web applications, like multi-player games and co-editing, co-creation applications. It explores the relationship between WebSocket API, Socket.IO library and an Azure service. WebSocket API – provides the transport-level plumbing of bi-directional communication between…

03/01/2024Apps on Azure Blog

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