How to optimize WebSocket events and data

[LearningNerd]

Questions:

• Is it better to send multiple events, one for each small update or action, or is it better to send one event containing all the relevant updates and iterate through them to update each piece accordingly?

  • Answer (2017-07-01): It depends! But if it doesn't negatively impact user experience, better to send less events with more data, because each event has some overhead in addition to its payload.
  • Note (2017-07-01): The more important question that I should have asked is: what's the bare essential data that needs to be sent, and when does each piece need to be sent?

• Should I throttle the user input events? How much would that improve performance?