You don&#x27;t need it.<p>It&#x27;s an option, and obviously we&#x27;d like people to use that and hence are likely to talk about it and show how cool it is etc, but you definitely don&#x27;t need it.<p>We have HTTP, WebSocket. Soon we&#x27;ll also expose MQTT and mDNS to the JS layer; with that you can build whatever you want with the tools and services you love and trust.