Paul Butler - Drifting in Space, JamSocket
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Creating a Session-Lived Application Backend
The idea behind spawner is to make a session-lived application backend easy. You hit an API, that API returns a unique host name that it's just generated on the fly. From the client side, you can connect to that host and we're actually agnostic to how you communicate with that host. It just has to be a browser technology like fetch, event source, web sockets. We're soon supporting WebRTC as well. And the main thing that we do is spin that backend up and monitor those connections when there's no more connections, we close that back down.
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