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Dev tools · February 18, 2015

WebsocketD

WebSockets are easy now

WebsocketD launched on February 18, 2015 with 82 votes, #526 of 1,772 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

What it does

websocketd is a single binary that wraps a command-line program and serves it over a WebSocket. Your program reads lines from stdin and writes lines to stdout.

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