Postal vs Socket.IO

Postal

A Swift framework for working with emails (by snipsco)

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Socket.IO

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Postal		Socket.IO
	Project
2	Mentions	4
651	Stars	5,152
0.0%	Growth	0.4%
0.0	Activity	4.3
almost 5 years ago	Latest Commit	4 days ago
Swift	Language	Swift
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Postal

Posts with mentions or reviews of Postal. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-12.

How to connect and read email via Imap protocol.
2 projects | /r/iOSProgramming | 12 May 2023

Postal - https://github.com/snipsco/Postal
Need some guidance starting out.
1 project | /r/swift | 28 Jun 2021

A framework like Postal should do the job I guess.

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 2022-01-21.

Does v16 of socket io of swift client supports nodejs socket io server v4?
1 project | /r/iOSProgramming | 3 May 2022
Awesome macOS Libraries List
76 projects | dev.to | 21 Jan 2022

Socket.IO - Socket.IO client written on Swift. Language: Swift.
Socket.io POST Requests from Socket.IO-Client-Swift
3 projects | /r/codehunter | 13 Nov 2021

I am running socket.io on an Apache server through Python Flask. We're integrating it into an iOS app (using the Socket.IO-Client-Swift library) and we're having a weird issue.
What’s everyone working on this month? (January 2021)
3 projects | /r/swift | 2 Jan 2021

Yeah, I am using https://github.com/socketio/socket.io-client-swift with my Xcode project, and server in nodejs.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Postal and Socket.IO you can also consider the following projects:

Mail Core 2 - MailCore 2 provide a simple and asynchronous API to work with e-mail protocols IMAP, POP and SMTP. The API has been redesigned from ground up.

Starscream - Websockets in swift for iOS and OSX

ShadowsocksX-NG - Next Generation of ShadowsocksX

Alamofire - Elegant HTTP Networking in Swift

Swifton - A Ruby on Rails inspired Web Framework for Swift that runs on Linux and OS X

SocketRocket

Just - Swift HTTP for Humans

SwiftSocket - The easy way to use sockets on Apple platforms

Netfox - A lightweight, one line setup, iOS / OSX network debugging library! 🦊

Moya - Network abstraction layer written in Swift.

PeerKit - An open-source Swift framework for building event-driven, zero-config Multipeer Connectivity apps

Socks - 🔌 Non-blocking TCP socket layer, with event-driven server and client.