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WebSockets and Fly

What's this blog post about?

The text discusses how to use WebSocket connections with the platform "Fly". It provides an example of a chat application that uses raw WebSockets (flychat-ws in fly-examples) and explains how to deploy it on Fly. The source code for this application is also examined, including the configuration file fly.toml and server.js file. Additionally, the client-side JavaScript code responsible for handling WebSocket connections is analyzed. Finally, the text highlights some of the benefits of using Fly, such as its ease of deployment, TLS connection management, and global infrastructure support.

Company
Fly.io

Date published
May 20, 2020

Author(s)
Dj Walker-Morgan

Word count
1500

Language
English

Hacker News points
None found.


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