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31 | 176 | |
7,914 | 33,003 | |
2.1% | 3.8% | |
9.0 | 9.7 | |
about 23 hours ago | 10 days ago | |
Go | Go | |
Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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Centrifugo
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WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. WebRTC vs. WebTransport
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.
- Centrifugo v5.1.0 released, with new powers for real-time messaging tasks, now with proxy GRPC subscription streams – similar to WebSocketd but over the network
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Integrating websockets into my current app
Check out https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo - it was initially designed to be a standalone language-agnostic real-time messaging server. So it may be used with Django without radical change in the existing application and using ASGI. It can also provide a much better performance if you care about it.
- Millions of Active WebSockets with Node.js
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Show HN: DriftDB is an open source WebSocket back end for real-time apps
https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo
It's a complete solution, including server, admin panel and client library.
We're an European company and use OVH, Hetzner and others.
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Laravel Websockets vs Soketi vs Laravel Echo Server
Hello! Theoretically you can take a look at https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo - which is a standalone self-hosted real-time messaging server. It does not have native support for Laravel and not compatible with Pusher protocol, though integrating with any backend system, including Laravel: see the blog post https://centrifugal.dev/blog/2021/12/14/laravel-multi-room-chat-tutorial, also has some helper packages:
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Is Python a good option to implement Websockets?
Hello, it's also possible to design an app in a way that its core will be built with Python, but WebSocket part delegated to something external and efficient like https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo – the benefit of the approach is that application business logic is completely decoupled from the real-time transport layer. This may lead to a scalable design with graceful degradation. I think this is especially useful when you already have backend built with Django and need to handle millions of concurrent connections.
- Centrifugo – real-time messaging server (WebSocket, etc.) which scales well and integrates with any backend. SDKs for browser and mobile development included
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What is the coolest Go open source projects you have seen?
Centrifugo https://centrifugal.dev/ https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifugo
- Golang updating the front-end with almost real-time events from the backend server
pocketbase
- Redis Re-Implemented with SQLite
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Using Google Sheets as the back end/APIs of your app
I'd like to plug PocketBase [0] for a similar use case.
Last week I was looking for a place to store random data with API access, and was looking at making a Google Sheets backend, but PocketBase was easy and didn't have a 60 rpm quota.
Deploying to a cheap VPS was very easy with CapRover.
[0] https://pocketbase.io/
- Soul: A SQLite REST and Realtime Server
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Deploying Pocketbase with Docker, Nginx and SSL
What is Pocketbase? Pocketbase is an open-source backend solution offering a real-time database, file storage, and seamless user authentication with OAuth integration, all readily available right out of the box.
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Ask HN: What two software products should have a kid?
Browsing HN, GitHub and the like we get to see a huge variety of software products and code bases.
I often see products and think - if this product X, got together with Y, it would be pretty cool - kind of like if they had a kid together.
Not too literally, but more on the conceptual level - my level of programming is low.
E.g. Just some....
- pocketable.io & datasette (+with some more charting) [https://pocketbase.io, https://datasette.io]
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Ask HN: What development tools are you using for your current project?
I'm working on a personal project and found myself looking for an alternative to Postman/Insomnia this morning. This made me realize i've been using the same tools for so long for work (mobile development, finance) that this project may be a good time to try out some new things.
Here are a few tools that i've been using lately that I really enjoy:
https://pocketbase.io/ - A dead-simple self-hosted firebase/supabase-like "backend in a box" using golang and sqlite. So far i've been really impressed. I've gone the route of extending the base offering with more go code and am really enjoying the experience.
https://excalidraw.com/ - An open source whiteboarding tool. Slick to use and after learning some keybinds I've gotten pretty fast at throwing together diagrams to explain things to people on my team. The killer piece though is that the filetype is just json, so I can source control my diagrams. Even better, their "export to png" function has a box to embed the json data _into_ the png, allowing me to slap the diagram in places that only accept images (think confluence) and still be able to change the diagram later if needed. 10/10.
https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/ - Gitlab's CI/CD toolset is really impressive, and I've gotten really intimate with it's deeper features over the past year. I'd be curious though to hear from someone who's familiar with it vs it's competitors.
- No longer accepting donations (Pocketbase)
- FLaNK Weekly 08 Jan 2024
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Pocketbase: Open-source back end in 1 file
Is there an article somewhere, outside of the Pocketbase docs, presenting that pattern?
- https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/blob/master/core/ap...
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Show HN: Build your startup or side project faster with these SaaS templates
Really hard to find projects related Go and HTMX but I found pocketbase it is based on Go. Interesting and seems promising - https://pocketbase.io/ based on sqllite but great for simple SaaS products
What are some alternatives?
Socket.io - Realtime application framework (Node.JS server)
supabase - The open source Firebase alternative.
NATS - Golang client for NATS, the cloud native messaging system.
Appwrite - Build like a team of hundreds_
Confluent Kafka Golang Client - Confluent's Apache Kafka Golang client
surrealdb - A scalable, distributed, collaborative, document-graph database, for the realtime web
Mercure - 🪽 An open, easy, fast, reliable and battery-efficient solution for real-time communications
Strapi - 🚀 Strapi is the leading open-source headless CMS. It’s 100% JavaScript/TypeScript, fully customizable and developer-first.
laravel-websockets - Websockets for Laravel. Done right.
litestream - Streaming replication for SQLite.
soketi - Next-gen, Pusher-compatible, open-source WebSockets server. Simple, fast, and resilient. 📣
thin-backend - 🔥 Thin Backend is a Blazing Fast, Universal Web App Backend for Making Realtime Single Page Apps