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What is a Web Socket API?

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A WebSocket API is a modern technology that can establish a two-way interactive communication session between a user's browser and a server. By using this API, you can send messages to a server and receive event-driven responses without polling the server. Most commonly, WebSocket is a duplex protocol that is used in client-server communications. Client-server communication is bidirectional, which means it goes back and forth between the client and the server. What is a Web Socket? A WebSocket is a computer communications protocol that provides full-duplex communication channels over a TCP connection. Through the use of the WebSocket, the connection lasts until one party decides to end it. A connection that is broken at one end prevents the other party from communicating with the first party. To initiate a connection, WebSocket needs HTTP support. When it comes to perfect streaming of data and other unsynchronized traffic, it serves as the spine for advanced web applic