As the Terraria 1.4.5 update gets ever closer, developer Re-Logic shares its State of the Game for August 2023, with a new yoyo accessory, furniture, and music.
WebSocket (WS) connections are pretty neat. I’ve gotten to play around with them before, both for personal and professional projects, but my view has mostly been at a high level and concerned mainly with the things that I can build on top of them. I haven’t spent much time digging through the protocol.
I thought it would be pretty interesting to build a toy WS server from scratch. Like many other projects, I find building a toy system to be such a good way to learn more, and I’ll be talking about this toy WS server (and some of those things I learned) in the rest of the post.