Package overview

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cosmopolite
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Client/server publish/subscribe and key/value storage for AppEngine.
Components:
* A server API built on the AppEngine Python framework.
* A browser client library written in JavaScript.
Feature overview:
* Near-realtime notification to subscribers of messages published to a "subject"
* Server-side storage of past messages for replay later to clients
* Support for associating a key with a message and for lookup of the most recent
message for a given key
* Client identification persistence via localStorage tokens or in combination
with Google account signin
* Complex messages supported via transparent JSON serialization
* Server-side strict ordering of messages
* Client-side message queueing in localStorage and resumption on restart
* Message duplication detection and elimination
* Promise support for notification of client -> server operation completion