---
title: "Building Real-time Apps with Websockets & Server-Sent Events — SitePoint"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/building-real-time-apps-with-websockets-server-sent-events-sitepoint-g7fx8goxc
source_url: https://www.sitepoint.com/real-time-apps-websockets-server-sent-events/
type: article
source: "SitePoint"
published: 2024-03-05T10:11:45.014Z
updated: 2026-05-21T02:13:01.331Z
tags: ["android", "javascript", "npm", "performance", "server-sent-events", "webdev"]
reading_time: 9
upvotes: 4
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Building Real-time Apps with Websockets & Server-Sent Events — SitePoint

**[SitePoint](https://daily.dev/sources/sitepoint)** · 9 min read · 4 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Learn how to build real-time apps using WebSockets and Server-Sent Events. Understand the differences between WebSockets and HTTP in terms of performance and functionality. Find out how to implement WebSockets in an Android application. Explore common use cases for WebSockets and Server-Sent Events.

## Full article

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Tags: [#android](https://daily.dev/tags/android), [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#npm](https://daily.dev/tags/npm), [#performance](https://daily.dev/tags/performance), [#server-sent-events](https://daily.dev/tags/server-sent-events), [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev)

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