backend VS server

Compare backend vs server and see what are their differences.

server

Spacebar server - A reimplementation of the Discord.com backend, built with Typescript and love (by spacebarchat)
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5 6
1,057 1,318
2.6% 2.9%
9.1 8.3
12 days ago 20 days ago
Rust TypeScript
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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backend

Posts with mentions or reviews of backend. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-28.
  • Selfhosted discord alternative
    3 projects | /r/selfhosted | 28 Mar 2023
    What's not open source of Revolt Chat? Last time I checked, they were using GPL 3.0.
  • How to use API?
    1 project | /r/revoltchat | 7 Mar 2023
    Our API is documented here, and there's API libraries for popular programming languages (I'd recommend you use one of those instead of rolling your own implementation). To authenticate as bot you have to pass X-Bot-Token instead of X-Session-Token.
  • Issues with channels
    1 project | /r/revoltchat | 12 Sep 2022
    Fixed as of https://github.com/revoltchat/backend/commit/86ad72b4264ca08ad39023dacff82684cb0ae9ee.
  • How discord mange 300M socket connection
    3 projects | dev.to | 15 Jul 2022
    Revolt
  • Revolt: Open-source alternative to Discord written in Rust
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Sep 2021
    Just want to suggest that if you're interested in doing this in the future, please put in effort to define interfaces up front. I took a quick look at the codebase and it looks like mongo is "in there pretty good"[0] without any abstraction to make it easily shimmable.

    Just a little specification around the that interface (Trait) will go a long way to making other backends possible and should make it much easier to know and manage the API contract a capable database must provide.

    [0]: https://github.com/revoltchat/delta/blob/master/src/database...

server

Posts with mentions or reviews of server. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-07-15.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing backend and server you can also consider the following projects:

matrix-react-sdk - Matrix SDK for React Javascript

fosscord - 📬 Spacebar is a free open source selfhostable discord compatible communication platform [Moved to: https://github.com/spacebarchat/spacebarchat]

awesome-revolt - Collection of Revolt libraries, bots, clients and other cool stuff.

self-hosted - Deploy Revolt using Docker.

desktop - Revolt Desktop App

jitsi - Jitsi is an audio/video and chat communicator that supports protocols such as SIP, XMPP/Jabber, IRC and many other useful features.

homebrew-core - 🍻 Default formulae for the missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

matrix-appservice-discord - A bridge between Matrix and Discord.

Mastodon - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community

community-instances - A curated list of public Spacebar instances.

documentation - Revolt documentation website.

api - 🚀 Core REST API & Gateway for Zaun