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2.10 My Third Web Server with Socket.IO

It’s time to send some real-time data to the browser. But we know that some real-time technologies aren’t available in certain browsers, such as WebSockets and AJAX. In this lesson, we’re going to be using a module called Socket.IO. This helps us by automatically detecting which features are available, and hiding the complexity from us. We just need to implement a bit of code to use it. So, we’ll stream the Twitter data from the last lesson to the browser.