https://thenewstack.io/figma-targets-developers-while-it-waits-for-adobe-deal-news/, https://thenewstack.io/google-docs-switches-to-canvas-rendering-sidelining-the-dom/, Miro — these applications have spoiled end users with real time, collaborative capabilities. Now end users, stinkers that they are, want the same capabilities from other web apps.

“Users don’t want to have to hit refresh on a web page to see real-time updates to data that they might see in a web application.” Real time is one of the two big trends in application development today, according to Buntel.

Another popular use case for real time is enabling push notifications, particularly when it involves real-time location data, such as alerting customers that a delivery is arriving.

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