What approach would you suggest when trying to build an instant chat feature?

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Socket.io

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Pusher

Use something like Pusher or Ably. It will make your life infinitely easier and will work with horizontally scaling backends.

#Mobile Push Messaging #Developer Tools #Web Push Notifications 56 social mentions

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Ably

Use something like Pusher or Ably. It will make your life infinitely easier and will work with horizontally scaling backends.

#Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS) #Realtime Backend / API #Mobile Push Messaging 25 social mentions

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SendBird

I would choose to use something like Sendbird. They are quite inexpensive especially when you are small and chatting is not your core app feature.

#Communication #Chat SDK #Messaging 14 social mentions