Clarify the "real time" component of SWR

[user72356]

On the main SWR landing page, "realtime" is a claimed benefit of SWR [1]

Similarly, I see SWR being thrown about on a Vercel documentation page talking about realtime as a concept [2].

Yet I don't see any concrete examples of how SWR helps with real time apps. To me, real time means that there must be some kind of server-side component that communicates with clients to either send them new data, or trigger them to fetch the new data.

I don't see how different SWR is than any other fetching mechanism for this. Please somebody help me understand. I'm looking at Replicache for real time, but I want to keep the stack lean, so... Let me know if SWR has actual real time capabilities!

[1] https://swr.vercel.app/
[2] https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/solutions/realtime

[indifferentghost]

Kinda sad to see this unanswered after so long.