Websocket-based real-time single-page application development framework

Abstract

Main feature of WebSocket is to establish a persistent link between the client and the server, enabling them to perform full-duplex communication. This protocol can effectively address the communication issues within browsers. In many cases, the persistent link established by WebSocket is not fully utilized. In fact, WebSocket can also implement most of functions of the HTTP protocol, but it requires additional difficulty and workload. Besides, it lacks mature solutions and libraries. Therefore, we develop a WebSocket-based web application development framework that takes full advantage of the features and benefits of WebSocket, and combines the popular single-page application development model to allow developers to quickly develop efficient and reliable web applications based on our framework. Several experiments has been carried out and the results are presented to show the performance of the WebSocket framework.