Why I Design Realtime Channel Lifecycles for Reliable Whiteboard Updates (with WebRTC)
Short answer: treat every realtime channel as a leased, observable state machine, keep durable whiteboard operations separate from ephemeral presence, and choose the transport only after defining what reconnect, replay, and stale membership mean. The page fires while a gaming session is still live: participants can see the shared whiteboard, but the poll moderator's roster says 84 people are…
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