Is WebSocket Still the Best Choice for Real‑Time Push? A Comparison with SSE and Polling
The article compares three server‑to‑client push techniques—polling, WebSocket, and Server‑Sent Events (SSE)—detailing their mechanisms, advantages, drawbacks, browser compatibility, and suitable use cases, and provides step‑by‑step Node/Express demos showing how to implement SSE in a simple web page.
