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renegadus
This is my project, would love feedback, not just on the idea itself - but also how I go about explaining it on the site.
stephenr
So, how does this work?

Is this just a DOM implementation that writes out the serialised form, or does it write our JavaScript to render whatever you've set, client side?

renegadus
It's the latter. It establishes a WebSocket connection and issues JavaScript commands to execute from the server. This connection remains persistently to allow bi-directional communication between client and server.

This occurs "behind the scenes", the developer will rarely need to think about it.