Hey guys, when developing chats, do people roll th...
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ursus
07/29/2018, 10:43 PMHey guys, when developing chats, do people roll their own websocket and stuff or is there go-to library? Im new to the domain
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dalexander
07/30/2018, 11:45 AMktor is a Kotlin-based web server framework, and it supports websockets, so probably something like that, or something similar on the Java side.
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tipsy
07/30/2018, 1:27 PM@ursus "no one" rolls their own, most people use spring (according to most surveys), but most libraries/frameworks have websocket support
tipsy
07/30/2018, 1:27 PMare you doing kotlin to kotlin chat, or a javascript chat with a kotlin backend?
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ursus
07/30/2018, 1:28 PMapp to app
ursus
07/30/2018, 1:28 PMright so abstraction is on top of websocket but not a chatting solution right?
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tipsy
07/30/2018, 1:29 PMoh yeah, the actual chat logic is usually something you'll end up writing yourself
tipsy
07/30/2018, 1:31 PMi think scarlet (https://github.com/Tinder/Scarlet) is the most popular websocket client for android, but i'm not an android dev, so i don't really know
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ursus
07/30/2018, 1:48 PMright yea, i was thinking more from backend, thanks
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tipsy
07/30/2018, 2:43 PMthen spring is the most commonly used framework
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07/30/2018, 2:44 PMu
ursus
07/30/2018, 4:03 PMthx