--- title: Simplifying Complexity: The Journey from WebSockets to... description: The article discusses the journey of simplifying the process of capturing gesture positions from a tablet's screen and relaying them to a browser. It explores... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/simplifying-complexity-the-journey-from-websockets-to-http-streams-vqnljankg twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Simplifying Complexity: The Journey from WebSockets to HTTP Streams | daily.dev og:description: The article discusses the journey of simplifying the process of capturing gesture positions from a tablet's screen and relaying them to a browser. 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The approach involves serializing touch events into a byte stream and using Server-Sent Events (SSE) for communication between the server and client. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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