NodeAkt – Zero-dependency distributed actor framework for TypeScript
Zero-dependency distributed actor framework for TypeScript: typed actors, supervision, mailboxes, behaviors, an event stream, a multi-core runtime, remoting across nodes, and clustering with discovery, placement, singletons, and relocation
What it does
Typed actors, supervision, behaviors, a multi-core runtime, remoting, and clustering across nodes. Zero dependencies. No locks, just messages. An actor owns private state and a mailbox. The runtime delivers one message at a time, so that state needs no lock. Look up, spawn, and message actors on another node. TLS encrypts the carrier when you need it; enabling it hinders performance versus plaintext. Turn a set of nodes into one cluster. Spawn, address, and message actors by name across the cluster, and have a departed node's actors recreated on the survivors automatically. The whole library is built on the standard library alone. npm install brings exactly onefrom tochemey.github.io
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