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24 alternatives to Socket.js, a tiny WebSockets library for Node.js

A realtime communication framework for Node.js. Contribute to stepchowfun/socket.js development by creating an account on GitHub.

Socket.js is a lightweight WebSockets library for Node.js that enables realtime communication between servers and clients. Built for developers working with Node.js applications, it provides a framework for… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Socket.js, a tiny WebSockets library for Node.js launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    A scalable realtime engine for Node.js

    2015 · socketcluster.io · its alternatives →

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    Powerful server for Node.js that just works so you can focus on your awesome project

    2017 · serverjs.io · its alternatives →

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    Minimal and idiomatic WebSocket library for Go. Contribute to coder/websocket development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I’ve written a bunch of WebSocket servers over the years to do simple things like state synchronization, WebRTC signaling, and notifying a client when a backend job was run. I realized that if I had a simple way to create a private, temporary, mini-redis that the client could talk to directly, it would save a lot of time. So we created DriftDB. In addition to the open source server that you can run yourself, we also provide https://jamsocket.live where you can use an instance we host on Cloudflare’s edge (~13ms round trip latency from my home in NY). You may have seen my…

    2023 · driftdb.com · its alternatives →

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    Scalable open source pub/sub SDK with support for RPC, JWT authentication and Kubernetes — optimized for async/await

    2016 · socketcluster.io · its alternatives →

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    An demo app for lattice-core. Contribute to jasonl99/card_game development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Bringing Http/Https and WebSockets High Performance servers for PyPy3 and Python3 - cirospaciari/socketify.py

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Signal protocol implementation for Node.js. Contribute to ForstaLabs/libsignal-node development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Excited to share the project I've been working on for the past 7 months! We've seen nearly weekly attacks against the open source software supply chain. I saw the seeds of this trend start in the mid 2015s as an open source maintainer and I've watched it only get worse over the years. I finally decided to try to solve this problem. Socket is taking an entirely new approach to one of the hardest problems in security in a stagnant part of the industry that has historically been obsessed with just reporting on known vulnerabilities. Unlike other scanning tools, Socket actually analyzes the…

    2022 · socket.dev · its alternatives →

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    Remote Desktop Protocol for Node.js. Contribute to citronneur/node-rdpjs development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2015 · lc.cx · its alternatives →

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    Mengutamakan tampilan modern dan kemudahan navigasi, BUSUR4D menghadirkan pengalaman gaming yang terasa lebih sederhana namun tetap menarik. Beragam pilihan permainan dapat dijelajahi dalam satu platform dengan interface responsif dan desain visual yang nyaman, sehingga aktivitas gaming menjadi lebi

    2011 · logio.org · its alternatives →

  12. 12SP

    I built this pubsub module because I wanted a simple solution that uses only node. Why did I want pubsub? I wanted to build a complex app but segregate it into microservices that work together through event messages. I also wanted to use this method instead of node's built-in clustering for multiple instances. I've been running it for a few weeks now with several messages per second bugfree. I plan to use this setup for future apps as it reduces complexity of the code and allows me to restart/update one part of the app without interrupting the other parts. I would love to receive…

    2022 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →

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    🚀 Realtime Monitoring solution for Node.js/Express.js apps, inspired by status.github.com, sponsored by https://dynobase.dev - RafalWilinski/express-status-monitor

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Advanced Mathematics Library for Node.js and JavaScript - numbers/numbers.js

    2012 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello HN, I built a Typescript library (named socket-call, for lack of a more sexy name) whose goal is to be able to call socket.io events as regular functions. So you declare your server-side like so: ... const listenEvents = (services: UserServices) => ({ // Add your events here, the name of the event is the name of the function login: async (username: string) => { services._socket.data.user = { username }; console.log(`User ${username} logged in`); setInterval(() => { // Calling an event that's handled client-side services.showServerMessage(`You're still logged in…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    301 Moved to http://github.com/daraosn/mustekala. Contribute to daraosn/node-puller development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2012 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    ⏰ Day.js 2kB immutable date-time library alternative to Moment.js with the same modern API - iamkun/dayjs

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    pubsub in <100 bytes. Contribute to hassanshaikley/pico-pubsub development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A hand-rolled real-time Node.js framework for connecting single page apps - psugihara/joint

    2012 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A real-time transcription project using React and socketio - GitHub - saharmor/realtime-transcription-playground: A real-time transcription project using React and socketio

    2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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