AnyCable – real-time for Next.js, open source alternative to PaaS

What it does

AnyCable: a realtime server with delivery guarantees for Rails, Laravel, Node.js, Python, and any backend.

AnyCable is a great companion for your serverless JavaScript (and TypeScript) applications needing real-time features. It can be used as a real-time server with no strings attached: no vendor lock-in, no microservices spaghetti, no unexpected PaaS bills. Keep your logic in one place (your JS application) and let AnyCable handle the low-level stuff. AnyCable will handle WebSocket/SSE connections and translate incoming commands into API calls to your serverless functions, where you can manage subscriptions and respond to commands. Broadcasting real-time updates is as easy as performing POST requests to AnyCable. Luckily, you don't need to write all this code from scratch. Our JS SDK makes it…from docs.anycable.io

In the maker’s words, at launch

You might have heard that scaling WebSocket infrastructure is not an easy task. It was true–until recently. We built the open source real-time server, AnyCable, that deploys to Fly.io in one command (and configures itself), and the SDK for serverless JS/TS that allows you to build real-time features without any…

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