graphql-subscriptions VS subscriptions-transport-ws

Compare graphql-subscriptions vs subscriptions-transport-ws and see what are their differences.

graphql-subscriptions

:newspaper: A small module that implements GraphQL subscriptions for Node.js (by apollographql)

subscriptions-transport-ws

:arrows_clockwise: A WebSocket client + server for GraphQL subscriptions (by apollographql)
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graphql-subscriptions subscriptions-transport-ws
7 11
1,575 1,515
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4.6 6.2
2 months ago about 2 years ago
TypeScript TypeScript
MIT License MIT License
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graphql-subscriptions

Posts with mentions or reviews of graphql-subscriptions. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-04.
  • three ways to deploy a serverless graphQL API
    13 projects | dev.to | 4 Oct 2021
    graphql-yoga is built on other packages that provide functionality required for building a GraphQL server such as web server frameworks like express and apollo-server, GraphQL subscriptions with graphql-subscriptions and subscriptions-transport-ws, GraphQL engine & schema helpers including graphql.js and graphql-tools, and an interactive GraphQL IDE with graphql-playground.
  • Subscriptions and Live Queries - Real Time with GraphQL
    5 projects | dev.to | 29 Jul 2021
    The most common used (but not best maintained) library for such a PubSub engine in the GraphQL context is graphql-subscriptions. There are also adapters available for more distributed systems (where all GraphQL API replicas must be notified about the event) e.g. over Redis.
  • GraphQL over WebSockets
    9 projects | dev.to | 29 Jul 2021
    During that work, we created and merged the reference implementation into graphql-js and created two supporting libraries: graphql-subscriptions and subscriptions-transport-ws. Here is a talk with deep dive into all the details.
  • Using useSWR as an alternative to Subscriptions?
    8 projects | /r/nextjs | 16 Jul 2021
    The Prisma / GraphQL-Yoga comes with Subscriptions, and this was the first thing I came across when my client asked for realtime updates. The implementation was quite difficult - took me a long time. Eventually, it was working locally, and in staging. However, when it came to the production environment, for some reason it just didn't work! This unfortunately ended up with a user losing an auction, which ultimately went to court etc.
  • GraphQL subscriptions not working consistently
    2 projects | /r/graphql | 17 May 2021
    There are also other solutions available: https://github.com/apollographql/graphql-subscriptions#pubsub-implementations
  • Build a chat app with GraphQL Subscriptions & TypeScript: Part 2
    4 projects | dev.to | 28 Feb 2021
    First, let's try to understand what PubSub is exactly. Apollo Server uses a publish-subscribe (pub/sub) model to track events that update subscriptions. The graphql-subscriptions library included in all apollo-server packages (including middleware integrations) provides a PubSub class as a basic in-memory event bus.
  • GraphQL the Simple Way, or: Don't Use Apollo
    8 projects | dev.to | 2 Sep 2020
    To add this, I can just expand the basic setup above. To do so, I do actually use a couple of small Apollo modules! Most can be picked and configured independently. For this case, graphql-subscriptions provides a little bit of pubsub logic that works within resolvers, and subscriptions-transport-ws integrates that into Express to handle the websockets themselves. Super helpful

subscriptions-transport-ws

Posts with mentions or reviews of subscriptions-transport-ws. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-09.
  • Fixing a 3 second lockup in our app by switching from Apollo Client to URQL
    2 projects | dev.to | 9 Feb 2023
    Additionally, we created a bit more work for ourselves by upgrading the library we use for GraphQL subscriptions over web sockets, moving from the seemingly unmaintained subscriptions-transport-ws to the active graphql-ws project (which is URLQ’s library of choice for subscriptions).
  • Is this a graphql thing or JSON thing?
    2 projects | /r/graphql | 27 Dec 2021
  • GraphQL Subscriptions and Mikro-Orm in 2021
    2 projects | dev.to | 14 Oct 2021
    Okay but seriously, if you've fallen down the rabbit hole of Apollo docs pointing you towards one library (subscription-transport-ws) which then points you to another (graphql-ws) , and so on and so forth, then hopefully this helps pull you out.
  • Looking for GraphQL server with ws-transport ability
    3 projects | /r/rust | 10 Oct 2021
    I'm looking for graphql server that can do queries and mutations over websocket, like subscriptions-transport-ws. Juniper and async-graphql both looks promising and async-graphql at least uses wording Subscriptions (WebSocket transport) in features but i couldn't find much more or any examples about that from the docs or repo.
  • three ways to deploy a serverless graphQL API
    13 projects | dev.to | 4 Oct 2021
    graphql-yoga is built on other packages that provide functionality required for building a GraphQL server such as web server frameworks like express and apollo-server, GraphQL subscriptions with graphql-subscriptions and subscriptions-transport-ws, GraphQL engine & schema helpers including graphql.js and graphql-tools, and an interactive GraphQL IDE with graphql-playground.
  • How does a client know if the server managing its subscription goes offline? (Multiple instances)
    2 projects | /r/graphql | 23 Sep 2021
    The javascript implementation is at subscriptions-transport-ws
  • GraphQL over WebSockets
    9 projects | dev.to | 29 Jul 2021
    Okay, so, how do I use WebSockets to add support for the GraphQL subscription operation? Doing a basic Google search, you’d be faced with a single solution, namely subscriptions-transport-ws. Looking through the repository, checking recent comments, reading through the issues and open PRs - might have you notice the abundance of bugs and their security implications. A summary can be found here.
  • The Stack #3
    22 projects | dev.to | 29 Jul 2021
    While subscription-transport-ws from Apollo initially started off this journey, it is not actively maintained and GraphQL WS by Denis definitely is a great replacement to that having no external dependencies and having the ability to work across many frameworks.
  • I need a little help implementing user online status tracking with Apollo/GraphQL.
    7 projects | /r/graphql | 10 Jun 2021
    apollo-server plans to remove WebSocket support, which is currenlty done over the deprecated graphql-ws protocol (as implemented by the unmaintained subscription-transport-ws module by apollo), in the next major version.
  • GraphQL Query and Mutation over Websockets
    3 projects | /r/graphql | 6 Jun 2021
    https://github.com/apollographql/subscriptions-transport-ws, which is used by Apollo Server does support executing queries and mutations actually but you are better off moving away it anyway (check the text in their README!)

What are some alternatives?

When comparing graphql-subscriptions and subscriptions-transport-ws you can also consider the following projects:

graphql-ws - Coherent, zero-dependency, lazy, simple, GraphQL over WebSocket Protocol compliant server and client.

uWebSockets.js - μWebSockets for Node.js back-ends :metal:

mercurius - Implement GraphQL servers and gateways with Fastify

ws - Simple to use, blazing fast and thoroughly tested WebSocket client and server for Node.js

amplify-flutter - A declarative library with an easy-to-use interface for building Flutter applications on AWS.

graphql-redis-subscriptions - A graphql subscriptions implementation using redis and apollo's graphql-subscriptions

altair - ✨⚡️ A beautiful feature-rich GraphQL Client for all platforms.

fastify-websocket - basic websocket support for fastify

graphql-yoga - 🧘 Rewrite of a fully-featured GraphQL Server with focus on easy setup, performance & great developer experience. The core of Yoga implements WHATWG Fetch API and can run/deploy on any JS environment.

serverless-graphql - Serverless GraphQL Examples for AWS AppSync and Apollo