Socket.io VS Pusher

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

Socket.io

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

Pusher

Ruby library for Pusher Channels HTTP API (by pusher)
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Socket.io Pusher
815 13
59,396 662
0.3% 0.0%
8.0 0.0
5 days ago 5 months ago
TypeScript Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
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.

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 2023-11-20.

Pusher

Posts with mentions or reviews of Pusher. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-24.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

peerjs - Simple peer-to-peer with WebRTC

Introducing .NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) - .NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.

Mercure - An open, easy, fast, reliable and battery-efficient solution for real-time communications

laravel-websockets - Websockets for Laravel. Done right.

SockJS - WebSocket emulation - Node.js server

deepstream.io - deepstream.io server

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

Faye - Simple pub/sub messaging for the web

centrifuge - Real-time messaging library for Go. The simplest way to add feature-rich and scalable WebSocket support to your application. The core of Centrifugo server.