Hello everyone, @ilbert and I are continuing the work originally started by Dfinity to provide WebSocket functionality to the canisters deployed on the Internet Computer. Today, we are releasing a beta version comprising: WebSocket Gateway Rust canister CDK JavaScript SDK for clients A demo is …

Wow that’s awesome. How was this possible?

The Gateway does the magic. It exposes a WebSocket endpoint to (frontend) clients and polls the canisters on the other side. This way, when from the canister you call ws_send, your message is saved in the canister’s state and read from the Gateway in the next polling iteration. When the Gateway r…

You and @ilbert are definitely on my #icp-awesome list for doing this :grinning:

It was great to brainstorm with you guys on the call a few days ago. Congratulations on the beta release. Looking forward to exploring an implementation where we can run the gateway on boundary nodes and enable low-latency communication on Internet Computer infrastructure. This improvement will be c…

Thanks for releasing! One of my first responses is thinking about this could help enable multiplayer pooling. Definitely exciting!

We have early version of IC4J Java Websockets Client communicating with WS gateway. Enables any Java or Kotlin application to receive WS messages from ICP. Finishing some exception handling and we will publish it on Github soon.

Published an early version of IC4J Websocket Client. [image] GitHub - ic4j/ic4j-websocket Contribute to ic4j/ic4j-websocket development by creating an account on GitHub. This Java library implements the #ICP Websocket Gateway protocol, allowing any Java appl…

IC WebSocket: Beta Release

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massimoalbarello October 18, 2023, 5:44pm 10

The stable release of IC WebSocket is out!

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IC WebSocket: Beta Release

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