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description Socket.IO Overview
Socket.IO is a popular JavaScript library for enabling real-time, bidirectional communication between web clients and servers. It's not a hosted service but a toolkit to build your own real-time features. Its major strength is providing a simple API while abstracting away transport complexities, automatically falling back from WebSocket to HTTP long-polling for compatibility. It's great for getting started quickly.
The main drawbacks are that you must manage your own server infrastructure, scaling can be challenging, and it lacks the built-in guarantees and global distribution of managed services.
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