Always important because our beloved websockets are fragile! socket.io has it built in, but in various projects I had to hoist my own reconnect functionality o

Always important because our beloved websockets are fragile! socket.io has it built in, but in various projects I had to hoist my own reconnect functionality on top because reconnects kept failing. engine.io aims to be more reliable than socket.io, mainly due to connecting via the fallback methods first, then establishing a websocket connection. I have not used e.io yet but intend to soon. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9610951/how-is-engine-io-different-from-socket-io http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9610951/how-is-engine-io-...