Socket.io VS Express

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

Socket.io

Realtime application framework (Node.JS server) (by socketio)

Express

Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node. (by expressjs)
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Socket.io Express
825 668
59,971 63,507
0.4% 1.0%
7.8 7.6
14 days ago 1 day ago
TypeScript JavaScript
MIT License MIT License
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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.

Express

Posts with mentions or reviews of Express. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-23.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Socket.io and Express you can also consider the following projects:

Next.js - The React Framework

SvelteKit - web development, streamlined

Nuxt.js - Nuxt is an intuitive and extendable way to create type-safe, performant and production-grade full-stack web apps and websites with Vue 3. [Moved to: https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt]

AdonisJs Application

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

SocketCluster - Highly scalable realtime pub/sub and RPC framework

Restify - The future of Node.js REST development

fastify - Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js

Nest - A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable, and enterprise-grade server-side applications with TypeScript/JavaScript 🚀

loopback-next - LoopBack makes it easy to build modern API applications that require complex integrations.

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

json-server - Get a full fake REST API with zero coding in less than 30 seconds (seriously)