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Party.IO — a new Socket.IO backend for PartyKit

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Post Details
Company
Date Published
Author
Sunil Pai
Word Count
547
Language
English
Hacker News Points
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Summary

Party.IO is a new Socket.IO backend for PartyKit that enables real-time, bidirectional and event-based communication between web clients and servers. It leverages Cloudflare's worldwide edge network to automatically scale and load balance across the globe, ensuring low latency for users. Deploying a Socket.IO server with PartyKit is simple and can handle thousands of concurrent users. By default, it uses a single party instance for message coordination, but this can be adjusted by passing a `partyID` in the query parameter to instantiate a new backend close to the user.