SwiftWebSocket vs Socket.IO

SwiftWebSocket

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Network Socket

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Socket.IO

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Network Socket

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SwiftWebSocket		Socket.IO
	Project
-	Mentions	4
1,436	Stars	5,145
-	Growth	0.3%
0.0	Activity	4.3
almost 5 years ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
Swift	Language	Swift
Custom	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

SwiftWebSocket

Posts with mentions or reviews of SwiftWebSocket. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning SwiftWebSocket yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Socket.IO

Posts with mentions or reviews of Socket.IO. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-21.

Does v16 of socket io of swift client supports nodejs socket io server v4?
1 project | /r/iOSProgramming | 3 May 2022
Awesome macOS Libraries List
76 projects | dev.to | 21 Jan 2022

Socket.IO - Socket.IO client written on Swift. Language: Swift.
Socket.io POST Requests from Socket.IO-Client-Swift
3 projects | /r/codehunter | 13 Nov 2021

I am running socket.io on an Apache server through Python Flask. We're integrating it into an iOS app (using the Socket.IO-Client-Swift library) and we're having a weird issue.
What’s everyone working on this month? (January 2021)
3 projects | /r/swift | 2 Jan 2021

Yeah, I am using https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-client-swift with my Xcode project, and server in nodejs.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing SwiftWebSocket and Socket.IO you can also consider the following projects:

Starscream - Websockets in swift for iOS and OSX

SocketRocket

Alamofire - Elegant HTTP Networking in Swift

SwiftSocket - The easy way to use sockets on Apple platforms

Socks - 🔌 Non-blocking TCP socket layer, with event-driven server and client.

Swift-ActionCableClient - ActionCable is a new WebSocket server being released with Rails 5 which makes it easy to add real-time features to your app. This Swift client makes it dead-simple to connect with that server, abstracting away everything except what you need to get going.

Moya - Network abstraction layer written in Swift.

BlueSocket - Socket framework for Swift using the Swift Package Manager. Works on iOS, macOS, and Linux.