The reconnect backoff that punished you for reconnecting

We run a live pub quiz app. A hundred phones in a room, one WiFi access point behind the bar, and a WebSocket that has to survive all of it. Drops are not an edge case here, they are Tuesday. So the client hook has the usual exponential backoff: export function computeBackoff(attempt: number): number { return Math.min(1000 * Math.pow(2, attempt),... Weiterlesen