evaluate websocket implementation

[alexrudd2]

I also started investigating https://github.com/robtaussig/react-use-websocket#example-implementation to see if it handles certain things better.

For example, our server uses the entire WebSocket object for identity, so I am unsure if it actually is filtering out when a tab is closed. We should generate an ID client-side and just pass that in as a query parameter, so we can gracefully remove connections that have been terminated.

Originally posted by @jedahan in #89 (comment)