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		andersmurphy 13 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mesh: I tried Htmx, then ditched it Datastar uses SSE. In practice you almost always want SSE rather than websockets or your own UDP protocol. Websockets are an operational nightmare once you get off the happy path.

icedchai 12 days ago [–]

HTMX also has a SSE extension. I’m working on a multiplayer game as a hobby project and am not too far along.

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