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    copied!<p>Web-applications experienced a great paradigm shift over the last years.</p> <p>A decade ago (and unfortunately even nowadays), web-applications lived only in <em>heavyweighted</em> servers, processing everything from data to presentation formats and sending to dumb clients which only rendered the output of the server (browsers).</p> <p>Then AJAX joined the game and web-applications started to turn into something that lived between the server and the browser.</p> <p>During the climax of AJAX, the web-application logic started to live entirely on the browser. I think this was when HTTP RESTful API's started to emerge. Suddenly every new service had its <strong><em>kind-of</em></strong> RESTful API, and suddenly JavaScript MV* frameworks started popping like popcorns. The use of mobile devices also greatly increased, and REST fits just great for these kind of scenarios. I say "kind-of RESTful" here because almost every API that claims to be REST, isn't. But that's an entirely different story.</p> <p>In fact, I became a sort of a "<em>REST evangelist</em>".</p> <p>When I thought that web-applications couldn't evolve much more, a new era seems to be dawning: Stateful persistent connection web-applications. <a href="http://meteor.com/" rel="noreferrer">Meteor</a> is an example of a brilliant framework of that kind of applications. Then I saw this <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpp-8gkPWVE" rel="noreferrer">video</a>. In this video Matt Debergalis talks about Meteor and both do a fantastic job! However he is kind of bringing down REST API's for this kind of purposes in favor of persistent real-time connections.</p> <p>I would like very much to have real-time model updates, for example, but still having all the REST awesomeness. <strong>Streaming REST API's</strong> seem like what I need (firehose.io and Twitter's API, for example), But there is very few info on this new kind of API's.</p> <p>So my question is:</p> <p><strong>Is web-based real-time communication incompatible with REST paradigm?</strong></p> <p><em>(Sorry for the long introductory text, but I thought that this question would only make sense with some context)</em></p>
 

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