On: Server-Sent Events (SSE) Are Underrated

[remram]

Or a SharedWorker that creates a single SSE connection for all your tabs.

SharedWorker is not very complicated but it's another component to add. It would be cool if this was built into SSE instead.

[uncomplexity_ → remram]

okay wtf this is amazing, seems usable with websockets too.

usage of Shared Web Workers https://dev.to/ayushgp/scaling-websocket-connections-using-s...

caniuse Shared Web Workers 45% https://caniuse.com/sharedworkers

caniuse BroadcastChannel 96% https://caniuse.com/broadcastchannel

[nchmy → uncomplexity_]

Yeah, the issue with SharedWorkers is that Android Chromium doesn't support it yet. https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40290702

But rather than Broadcast Channel, you can also use the Web Locks API (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Locks_A...) rather than Broadcast Channel

This library (https://github.com/pubkey/broadcast-channel/blob/master/src/...) from the fantastic RxDB javascript DB library uses WebLocks with a fallback to Broadcast Channel. But, WebLocks are supported on 96% of browsers, so probably safe to just use it exclusively now.

[hamandcheese → remram]

Ultimately this is what I did. But if you need or want per-tab connection state it will get complicated in a hurry.