How to load shaders from the server?

Question

WebGL

On the client side, there is a js file that contains all the game logic, including vertex and fragment shaders. I want to move the shaders to the server side of Node.js and load them over the network. Question: What is better to use for this - HTTP protocol (XHR/fetch()) or WebSocket?

Answer 1

Since the content of the shaders themselves is unlikely to change often, make a separate web worker for them and place them in the cache in preload, and then use HTTP (XHR / fetch) to load them, which will be intercepted by the web worker and returned from the cache.