What are WebSockets in Python?

websockets is a library for building WebSocket servers and clients in Python with a focus on correctness, simplicity, robustness, and performance . Built on top of asyncio , Python’s standard asynchronous I/O framework, it provides an elegant coroutine-based API.

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Does Django channels use Redis?

channels_redis is the only official Django-maintained channel layer supported for production use. The layer uses Redis as its backing store , and supports both a single-server and sharded configurations, as well as group support. To use this layer you’ll need to install the channels_redis package.

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What are Phoenix channels?

Channels are a really exciting and powerful part of Phoenix that allow us to easily add soft-realtime features to our applications. Channels are based on a simple idea – sending and receiving messages . Senders broadcast messages about topics. Receivers subscribe to topics so that they can get those messages.

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What are WebSockets for?

The WebSocket API is an advanced technology that makes it possible to open a two-way interactive communication session between the user’s browser and a server . With this API, you can send messages to a server and receive event-driven responses without having to poll the server for a reply.

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What is a WebSocket example?

WebSocket Example A WebSocket is a standard bidirectional TCP socket between the client and the server . The socket starts out as a HTTP connection and then “Upgrades” to a TCP socket after a HTTP handshake. After the handshake, either side can send data.

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