dropzone VS Socket.io

Compare dropzone vs Socket.io and see what are their differences.

dropzone

Dropzone is an easy to use drag'n'drop library. It supports image previews and shows nice progress bars. (by enyo)

Socket.io

Realtime application framework (Node.JS server) (by socketio)
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dropzone Socket.io
11 825
17,829 60,085
0.2% 0.4%
0.0 7.8
4 months ago 7 days ago
JavaScript TypeScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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dropzone

Posts with mentions or reviews of dropzone. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-16.

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 2024-02-08.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dropzone and Socket.io you can also consider the following projects:

filepond - 🌊 A flexible and fun JavaScript file upload library

Primus - :zap: Primus, the creator god of the transformers & an abstraction layer for real-time to prevent module lock-in.

Uppy - The next open source file uploader for web browsers :dog:

SocketCluster - Highly scalable realtime pub/sub and RPC framework

jQuery-File-Upload - File Upload widget with multiple file selection, drag&drop support, progress bar, validation and preview images, audio and video for jQuery. Supports cross-domain, chunked and resumable file uploads. Works with any server-side platform (Google App Engine, PHP, Python, Ruby on Rails, Java, etc.) that supports standard HTML form file uploads.

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

fine-uploader

peerjs - Simple peer-to-peer with WebRTC.

plupload - Plupload is JavaScript API for building file uploaders. It supports multiple file selection, file filtering, chunked upload, client side image downsizing and when necessary can fallback to alternative runtimes, like Flash and Silverlight.

Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) - .NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.

flow.js - A JavaScript library providing multiple simultaneous, stable, fault-tolerant and resumable/restartable file uploads via the HTML5 File API.

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