URLSessionWebSocketTask - Fresh Beginning

URLSessionWebSocketTask

A collection of 2 posts

Creating WebSocket server on iOS using NWConnection

In the last couple of blog posts, we saw how to write a client-side code to handle web socket connections using native and third-party support. In this post, I will go over creating a web socket server on iOS in Swift using newly introduced NWConnection in iOS 13. New Project

WebSockets on iOS using URLSessionWebSocketTask

iOS added support for WebSocket starting iOS 13 and they announced it in WWDC2019 [https://wwdc.io/share/wwdc19/712]. Before that, developers had to rely on third-party libraries such as Starscream [https://github.com/daltoniam/Starscream] or SwiftWebSocket [https://github.com/tidwall/SwiftWebSocket]. Now with native support, it all