network What do you use for network protocol?

[WheelLabs]

I recently started development for web. Unfortunately I came from C++ world, as I already mentioned in the topic about our game.

I would like to know, what do experienced web developers use to implement network protocol?

Especially I am interested in real time multiplayer games, when latency should be minimized and message size is critical.

I know a bit about Google protocol buffers and Apache thrift. But at the end I reinvented the wheel. Enjoy some C++ bullshit, if you want: https://github.com/misanthrop/binary-wheel

[Skeptron]

To me websockets are very fine. And my game is real-time, competitive multiplayer (https://www.nemroth.com). Anything more complicated should be justified by severe requirements, otherwise I think you're wasting your time.

[PsichiX]

pings and notifications, well just updating database - http; streaming with websockets or webrtc

[caymanbruce]

i design my own game protocol based on websocket.

[PsichiX]

1 hour ago, caymanbruce said:

i design my own game protocol based on websocket.

so it is websocket ;P

[Langerz82]

Dont expect to run FPS's with websockets, but otherwise it handles fine for real-time click movement. 

My engine has sometimes heavy packet loads entering a new map for instance so what I do is pack the messages send them at an interval, and use the client to break up the messages and process a limited amount at a time with a very short delay.

It also can compress the very large packets but I think its a bit overkill.

[PsichiX]

Dunno if WebRTC was mentioned before, but this API should be perfect for super fast data transmission.