feathers-chat VS feathers

You might take a look at a framework that already includes user authentication like Feathers.js. The Getting Started Guide walks you through creating a simple real-time chat app with user authentication. And the final chat app code is on GitHub here.

Overall, your idea is pretty reasonable. You might consider using something like Feathers.js for your API/backend that provides some higher level messaging on top of WebSockets. That will take care of some of those lower-level details for you. In Feathers, your user would just subscribe to a named channel and your back end would post a message to the channel when something completes and then user would receive it. The Feathers example app is a real-time chat app that uses channels. The user guide goes through building that app.

For backend this might help https://feathersjs.com. I’m not affiliated with them, just a happy user.

Community stats: Feathers.js has a small but active community with 14.8k stars and 761 forks on GitHub.

The project has gained almost 15k GitHub stars and 26k npm weekly downloads. The Feathers library is widely known for its simplicity and ease of integration with various databases, and it also comes with excellent documentation to help you get started.

Feathers.js - fully fledged backend framework, with almost anything out of the box

Feathers.js

For anything CRUD or that can be modeled as such, I use FeathersJS (https://feathersjs.com/).

Feathers – Realtime Node Microservice Framework

Is there something like Feathers | The API and Real-time Application Framework (feathersjs.com) ?