Real-Time Frontend: Long-Polling, SSE, WebSockets, WebRTC, and WebTransport Compared
A principal-level guide to choosing server push, full-duplex, P2P, and HTTP/3 transport on the frontend—with trade-offs, reconnection, and production scaling.
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Robust Data Fetching — fetch(), AbortController, Retry, and the Stale-Response Race
Client-side fetch resilience for seniors: HTTP gotchas, AbortController timeouts, exponential backoff, stale-response races, dedup, and a fetchJSON wrapper.