Socket.io VS Pusher

Community stats: Socket.IO has a community with 59.2k stars and 10.2k forks on GitHub.

Socket.IO is a NodeJS framework built on top of WebSockets that enables realtime client-server communication. Socket.IO is event-driven and compatible with older browsers and environments.

I'm glad to announce the version 0.7.0 of my library socketioxide! It is a socket.io server implementation working as a tower layer/service. Therefore it integrates with any hyper based http framework like salvo, axum, warp or hyper itself.

Check the quickstart of Socket.io. Support Socket.io on GitHub ⭐

Everything else is usual suspects. Uses SSE to stream replies back to the user mid-AI generation, but this might become socket.io because SSE doesn't play nicely with mobile browsers and tab switching. The text fade in is something I hope to open source eventually, it's not a huge implementation, but it does some fancy stuff like simulating pauses in speech.

Socket.IO, founded in 2010, is a popular WebSocket library with nearly 59k stars on GitHub and about 3 million weekly npm downloads. It’s used by many top companies, including FlutterWave, and Trello. Socket.IO is optimized to function well in network environments that have intermediary components such as proxies and load balancers. Socket.IO is a go-to WebSocket Node library for many developers.

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WebSockets - Amazon API Gateway and AWS AppSync subscriptions. A popular non-AWS option is Socket.IO.

Hello rustaceans. Many of you have heard of https://socket.io. Those who didn't, Socket IO is a very popular and easy websocket/polling framework, used for real time chat and games.

If you were to develop any chat app or a web game, you probably used Socketio. Those who didn't, its a feature-rich and very popular web socket library in existence. These are what you can do with Socketio:

Pusher Channels is a real-time notifications service that empowers developers to swiftly integrate real-time functionality, like live notifications and chat, into web and mobile apps using WebSockets. Pusher is known for reliability and scalability and is used by Buffer, GitHub, and Datadog.

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According to Vercel's website SocketIO is NOT supported, however Pusher Channels is recommended in it's place. Not sure what it is, but it supposedly is supported by vercel and potentially can help.

Pusher is a hosted service that makes it super-easy to add real-time data and functionality to web and mobile applications. It sits as a real-time layer between your servers and your clients. Pusher maintains persistent connections to the clients — over WebSocket if possible and falling back to HTTP-based connectivity — so that as soon as your servers have new data that they want to push to the clients they can do, instantly via Pusher.

Then watchPosition from @react-native-community/geolocation is definitely the way to go. Here's a link to the example in their repo. This will constantly update the position state variable, which you can then send to a realtime service which other users are subscribed to and consuming. (Depending on your implementation, could be a websocket or some pub/sub service... I've worked with Pusher Channels before for something similar.)

An easy way to start with is to use external Pusher channels service It requires 0 devops and everything works very well, for free at least at the beginning. However, like any external service, it can't scale without paying. "Pay as you grow".

Centrifugo is very similar to pusher.com Channels product (https://pusher.com/channels) – but self-hosted. Also – somewhat similar to socket.io - but not a library, so can work with any backend. Centrifugo is pretty unique in terms of available features sum – so can't say that there is a direct analogue I've heard about - sth from one product, sth from another, sth unique. And of course there are alternatives which can do what Centrifugo can't since the market of real-time servers is quite big.

Pusher is https://pusher.com/channels and is rate-limited on the Free plan.

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