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Ahmed Ahmed

Notes from the work.

Write-ups on things I had to understand properly while building real products: real-time features, APIs and the details in between.

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HTTP vs WebSocket: what I learned adding live order tracking

شغال علي مشروع واحتاجت اضيف فيه فيتشر tracking لـ orders ف بدأت اتعلم اذاي استخدم الـ WebSocket في البروجيكت

Adding real-time order tracking pushed me to step back from the code and understand how WebSocket differs from HTTP: polling, long polling, and why a persistent, two-way connection wins for real-time features. Written in Arabic, with a short Node.js + Express + React demo.

WebSocket · HTTP · Real-time · Node.js · React

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