Nostr Web Client

The preference seems to be for Nostr-related services to use things like DVM so everything stays in WebSocket world.

IMO, the Nostr protocol specs over-index on WebSocket technology. There's no reason we can't create HTTP APIs for querying relays. In fact, that's something I'm intending to work on, in the future.

Robert Allen 1y ago

Agree. Working on a closed-source client and I am essentially adding a REST API between the client and relays.

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unknown 1y ago

Why did Nostr make all these bad design decisions.....

MichaelJ 1y ago

This is just one data point, but anecdotally, it seems that the WebSocket dependence is a major pain point in the Nostr protocol.

If anyone knows, I'm curious to hear why WebSockets are the technology of choice.

I think future development work ought to consider how to ease this friction to improve the client development process.

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