WebSocket support from client to backend

[mikesir87]

I'm working on a PoC that in which my client will connect to a WebSocket offered by my backend so I can push events to the client. I see various client support for the normal HTTP operations. Any chance we can add a .ws method? It would be nice if the Promise could return the raw WebSocket object, letting me do my own message, onclose, etc. handling.

[rumpl]

Hey @mikesir87

Streaming things is kind of a pain between the main process and the renderer process in which the extension is running. You can pass everything over from one to the other. You can see it by the weird API we have for spawn* functions.

That being said I was sure someone would need some kind of streams at one point so I'll continue working/researching this! 👍

[mikesir87]

Awesome! In the meantime, I can simply fall back to polling for the data. Obviously not as preferred, but will certainly do the job.