salvo-realtime
Installation
SKILL.md
Salvo Real-time Communication
Overview / decision guide for Salvo's real-time transports. For full APIs see salvo-websocket and salvo-sse.
Pick a transport
| WebSocket | SSE | |
|---|---|---|
| Direction | Full-duplex | Server → client only |
| Transport | Custom over TCP | Plain HTTP (text/event-stream) |
| Reconnection | Manual (heartbeat) | Automatic (browser) |
| Binary payloads | Yes | No (text only) |
| Proxies / firewalls | Occasionally blocked | Same as any HTTP request |
| Salvo feature | websocket |
sse |
Use WebSocket for chat, multiplayer games, collaborative editing, any bidirectional stream. Use SSE for notifications, tickers, progress bars, dashboards — anything that only pushes from server.