Glossary

This page offers a glossary on key terms and concepts used in the PartyKit documentation.

Durable Object

A piece of code running at the edge (worker) with persistent state that is infinitely scaleable (from Cloudflare). It is best suited for real time collaborative applications. Learn more.

Party

A single server instance - in other words, a single Durable Object.

PartyServer

An instance code definition of the server.

PartyWorker

A static code definition of the server which runs in a separate worker before connecting to the Party.

Room

An instance of a party, distinguishable by a unique id. For example, you may have a user party and every user will have its own id (which is reflected in the URL: /parties/:party/:room-id - and with an example: /parties/user/ada).

Server

A single Durable Object, also called a “Party” in PartyKit.