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I think it's more like Hook.io than Socket.io. One use could be server monitoring or deployment. You can also check out the Hook.io hook libraries to see how that has been used: https://github.com/hookio/hook.io/wiki/Hook.io-Libraries

This seems like a simpler API to me.

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Thanks for the reply, I'll check out Hook as well.

I'm fairly new to working with Node, so any kind of context for use-cases around some of these libraries is always a help

i assume messenger works the same way, but the nature of hook is the processes are completely decoupled. essentially, you are just creating an event emitter that works cross-process. one benefit of this decoupling is it enables you to spin up and take down these processes without affecting the rest of the program.

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