websocket VS centrifuge

In my experience Go has been relatively approachable for people that are good at PHP. It has a great standard library and a pretty solid ecosystem, though frameworks aren’t as popular in Go. There are some well regarded libraries for things like WebRTC via https://github.com/pion/webrtc WebSicket via https://github.com/nhooyr/websocket

Also take a look at https://github.com/nhooyr/websocket - which is a good ws library, but I don't have anything specific about its memory usage per connection. But from what I see it will be somewhat similar to x/net/websocket.

nhooyr/websocket, shollz/pake, charmbracelet/bubbles, charmbracelet/bubbletea, charmbracelet/lipgloss, muesli/reflow, klauspost/pgzip and many, many more.

link: https://github.com/nhooyr/websocket

There's https://github.com/gobwas/ws and https://github.com/nhooyr/websocket but neither have seen a commit in over a year

The last time I was using websockets, I found https://github.com/gobwas/ws to be a huge improvement over Gorilla, but I haven't been looking recently, and perhaps Gorilla was able to shed some of its bloat and improve API and performance since then.

BTW, Centrifugo is based on https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifuge Go library which may provide much more control and flexibility for Gophers than a standalone server and can be embedded to any Go app leveraging all Centrifugo client SDKs.

There are libraries which provide more advanced APIs for creating real-time applications, for example https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifuge

Yes, but there are two excelent libs for golang websockets - https://github.com/gobwas/ws - https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifuge

What https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifuge does:

Have you considered https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifuge? It also uses Gorilla WebSocket for WebSocket transport at the moment – but it's hidden inside and may be replaced if needed since Transport interface is pluggable. It's more heavyweight though than both Melody and Gorilla WebSocket but provides much more functionality out-of-the-box.

Not a Socket.IO compatible but maybe you will find it useful/interesting: https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifuge

Thanks! BTW, Centrifugo's core is based on https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifuge Go library - which theoretically can be more flexible and extensible solution for Go developers than Centrifugo server since server dictates some auth/permission/channel/api rules.

Hello, +1 to WebSockets. If you need to choose WS library – go with https://github.com/gorilla/websocket or https://github.com/gobwas/ws. You can also look at Centrifugo server (https://centrifugal.dev/, supports WebSocket, SockJS bidi transports, also EventSource, HTTP-streaming, GRPC unidirectional transports and many builtin features) or https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifuge Go library.