technically it's Server-Sent Events

it should be just a regular http request that is reading from the connection until it's closed, and after that it starts again.

a yeah typed too quickly lol. I know it's very "simple", with curl for instance. But cljs-http doesn't allow me to do it (I think). Do you have a specific library or everything hand-rolled?

I use websockets for this type of server push.

@U1QQJJK89 Any specific library to use with websockets (client side)?

I feel we have a gap for a proper http library. Especially one that has one interface over all the different platforms that clojure now is targetting

Nothing client side. Im using immutant server side. Then just js interop client side. some core.async. transit encoding with LZString compression.

multimethods for message routing on top of the websockets

what I have found amazing is websockets + transit + multimethods + cljc as a gamechanger (IMHO). Being able to write client/server messaging "workflows" in a single cljc file with automatic dispatch (via multimehtods) feels pretty liberating.

Yeah exactly, I want that too. And the core of clojure works great on several platforms. It's the edges where you find yourself lost. E.g. now I want to do http requests. I have something for this that works on the server side, but when I think hey let's do this in a GraalVM environment or nodejs, or browser, they will all have a different implementation. If we can fix that .. 🙂

@U0FT7SRLP for websockets I recommend sente (handles client and server with reconnects and downgrades to ajax) - https://github.com/ptaoussanis/sente

You should definitely take a look at Hanasu https://github.com/jsa-aerial/hanasu It is a lot simpler than Sente but is very flexible.

Thank you!

It seems most people are more into websockets

Yes, generally I now use them for all this client/server (and/or peer to peer) communication. For the most part it is simpler, more flexible, and just works. For example, I use Hanasu extensively in several projects and I know some others do as well. I use it for python communication as well https://github.com/jsa-aerial/pyhanasu

several. Aerobio (which also uses pyhansu), Hanami and Saite are the public available ones: https://github.com/jsa-aerial/aerobio, https://github.com/jsa-aerial/hanami, https://github.com/jsa-aerial/saite

There are some others that I need/should release. These are not so much "written in Hanasu" as "written with Hanasu as the msg service"

I hope that a part of my issues with CLJS clients will be tackled by the new ring spec (see my point in this thread https://github.com/ring-clojure/ring/issues/393#issuecomment-593863601)

It's either here or in #beginners

As to your actual question, it seems like a plain AJAX request is more than enough.

Thanks for the quick answer! 🙂 I'll look into AJAX requests, a quick search suggests to use cljs-http, is that still the standard/easiest way?

Yeah, the library is still widely used, you should be fine with it.

Great thanks! A last, very beginner question, is it ok to use the same base url (with different routing ofc) for both my clojurescript app and for my clojure "api"?

Yes, that should work.

I'm using kee-frame with bidi, it works perfectly. What do you mean by "couldn't make it work", what were the exact issues?

I have used secretary without problems. What does react-router do differently?

The problem is that I couldn’t sync secretary’s dispatch! with browser’s url, I was able to route the application internally but the route doesn’t reflect on the browser URL, and if I try to change the URL manually (like a href’s link) the page reloads

I've recently had the same question for secretary. Take a look at accountant which works together with secretary to take care of the browser history, it will update the browser, too.