WebSocket Heartbeats: Preventing Silent Mobile Disconnects with Redis Pub/Sub
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WebSocket Heartbeats: Preventing Silent Mobile Disconnects with Redis Pub/Sub Mobile WebSocket clients drop connections silently. Your onclose handler will not fire. This leads to stale state and missed messages in real-time applications. In idolchat , I encountered this exact problem. Mobile OS po…
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- 2026-09-27 19:19 · DEV Community — AI
WebSocket Heartbeats: Preventing Silent Mobile Disconnects with Redis Pub/Sub