How to use sockets in JavaScriptHTML?

To use sockets, consider the WebSocket interface in JavaScript. This interface enables web applications to maintain bidirectional communications with server-side processes.

To enable Web applications to maintain bidirectional communications with server-side processes, this specification introduces the WebSocket interface.

Here are some of the methods to workaround with Web Sockets −

socket = new WebSocket(url [, protocols ] )

Create a new socket using this, wherein parameters URL is a string for the connection and protocols is a string or array of string.

socket . send( data )

The above is used to send data.

Used to close the socket connection.

socket . close( [ code ] [, reason ] )

The following returns the URL used to establish the connection.

socket . url