Real-time features default to WebSockets even when WebSockets are overkill. Server-Sent Events are dramatically simpler for one-way streams, work over plain HTTP, and handle reconnection automatically. Here's how to pick between SSE, WebSockets, and long polling -- and the cases where the obvious choice is wrong.
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