Top 23 Go Messaging Projects

• nsq

  14 24,649 6.1 Go

  A realtime distributed messaging platform

  

Project mention: NSQ: Open-source realtime distributed messaging, billions of messages / day | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-01-09

• NATS

  107 14,925 9.8 Go

  High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system.

  

Project mention: Hello World, Simple Event Broker | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-29

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• open-im-server

  11 13,216 9.7 Go

  IM Chat

  

• Tinode

  5 11,627 8.0 Go

  Instant messaging platform. Backend in Go. Clients: Swift iOS, Java Android, JS webapp, scriptable command line; chatbots

  

• Asynq

  32 8,795 7.0 Go

  Simple, reliable, and efficient distributed task queue in Go

Project mention: Looking for a language agnostic Go task queue with Redis | /r/golang | 2023-09-12

EDIT : I think the best for my case will be to use the asynq library with a custom js client, it's quite easy to implement (Detailed here)

• Centrifugo

  31 7,991 8.9 Go

  Scalable real-time messaging server in a language-agnostic way. Self-hosted alternative to Pubnub, Pusher, Ably. Set up once and forever.

  

Project mention: WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. WebRTC vs. WebTransport | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-20

Hello, I am author of https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo. Our users can choose from WebSocket, EventSource, WebTransport (experimental stabilize in the future). WebRTC is out of scope as the main purpose is central server based real-time json/binary messaging, and WebRTC makes things much more complex since it shines for peer-to-peer and rich media communications.

What I'd like to add is that Centrifugo also supports HTTP-streaming – not mentioned by the OP – but this is a transport which has advantages over Eventsource - like possibility to send POST body on initial request from web browser (with SSE you can not), it supports binary, and with Readable Streams browser API it's widely supported by modern browsers.

Another thing I'd like to mention about Centrifugo - it supports bidirectional WebSocket fallbacks with EventSource and HTTP-streaming, and does this without sticky sessions requirement. I guess nobody else have this at this point. See https://centrifugal.dev/blog/2022/07/19/centrifugo-v4-releas.... Which solves one more practical concern. Sticky sessions is an optimization in Centrifugo case, not a requirement.

If you are interested in topic, we also have a post about WebSocket scalability - https://centrifugal.dev/blog/2020/11/12/scaling-websocket - it covers some design decisions made in Centrifugo.

• gorush

  2 7,771 7.4 Go

  A push notification server written in Go (Golang).

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• Benthos

  77 7,724 9.7 Go

  Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane

  

Project mention: Benthos – Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-15

• machinery

  14 7,350 5.6 Go

  Machinery is an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.

• berty

  77 7,356 8.0 Go

  Berty is a secure peer-to-peer messaging app that works with or without internet access, cellular data or trust in the network

  

Project mention: Berty: Secure P2P message app that needs no internet access or trust in network | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-10

• watermill

  23 6,818 7.1 Go

  Building event-driven applications the easy way in Go.

  

Project mention: Microservices communication | /r/golang | 2023-12-09

I’ve successfully worked on projects using an asynchronous event-driven way of connecting services. I really like the decoupling of business logic and the events triggering it. I highly recommend https://github.com/ThreeDotsLabs/watermill to be more flexible when it comes to choosing the actual technology driving the async patter. It might be NATS today but requirements might change and you need to change. Watermill prepares you for this.

• NATS

  11 5,216 9.0 Go

  Golang client for NATS, the cloud native messaging system.

  

Project mention: High-Performance server for NATS.io, the cloud and edge native messaging system | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-07-21

• Jocko

  3 4,885 0.0 Go

  Kafka implemented in Golang with built-in coordination (No ZK dep, single binary install, Cloud Native)

• Mercure

  19 3,787 8.4 Go

  🪽 An open, easy, fast, reliable and battery-efficient solution for real-time communications

• APNs2

  0 2,944 0.0 Go

  ⚡ HTTP/2 Apple Push Notification Service (APNs) push provider for Go — Send push notifications to iOS, tvOS, Safari and OSX apps, using the APNs HTTP/2 protocol.

• notify

  45 2,735 9.1 Go

  A dead simple Go library for sending notifications to various messaging services.

• go-nsq

  1 2,544 1.8 Go

  The official Go package for NSQ

  

• liftbridge

  10 2,543 6.3 Go

  Lightweight, fault-tolerant message streams.

  

• gopush-cluster

  0 2,078 0.0 Go

  Golang push server cluster

• teamgram-server

  1 1,694 8.9 Go

  Unofficial open source mtproto server written in golang with compatible telegram client.

  

• EventBus

  0 1,651 0.0 Go

  [Go] Lightweight eventbus with async compatibility for Go (by asaskevich)

• Uniqush-Push

  2 1,524 0.0 Go

  Uniqush is a free and open source software system which provides a unified push service for server side notification to apps on mobile devices.

  

• beaver

  8 1,520 3.0 Go

  💨 A real time messaging system to build a scalable in-app notifications, multiplayer games, chat apps in web and mobile apps.

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Go Messaging related posts

• Benthos – Fancy stream processing made operationally mundane

  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 15 May 2024

• NATS: First Impressions

  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Apr 2024

• Interview with Sebastian Holstein, Founder of Qaze

  1 project | dev.to | 21 Mar 2024

• WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. WebRTC vs. WebTransport

  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Mar 2024

• NSQ: Open-source realtime distributed messaging, billions of messages / day

  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jan 2024

• Public chatroom websocket project in Go

  1 project | /r/golang | 7 Dec 2023

• Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2023)

  17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Dec 2023
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