Faye VS Socket.io

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

Faye

Simple pub/sub messaging for the web (by faye)

Socket.io

Realtime application framework (Node.JS server) (by socketio)
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Faye Socket.io
4 825
4,378 60,129
-0.1% 0.5%
0.0 7.8
about 2 years ago 13 days ago
JavaScript TypeScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later MIT License
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Faye

Posts with mentions or reviews of Faye. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-26.

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 Faye and Socket.io you can also consider the following projects:

Action Cable Client - A ruby client for interacting with Rails' ActionCable. -- Maintainers Wanted.

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

Websocket-Rails - Plug and play websocket support for ruby on rails.

SocketCluster - Highly scalable realtime pub/sub and RPC framework

AnyCable - AnyCable for Ruby applications

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

Slanger - Open Pusher implementation compatible with Pusher libraries

peerjs - Simple peer-to-peer with WebRTC.

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.

Lite Cable - Lightweight Action Cable implementation (Rails-free)

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