SocketCluster
Highly scalable realtime pub/sub and RPC framework (by SocketCluster)
SockJS
WebSocket emulation - Node.js server (by sockjs)
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SocketCluster | SockJS | |
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8 | 2 | |
6,109 | 2,087 | |
0.0% | 0.4% | |
6.8 | 3.9 | |
about 17 hours ago | 5 months ago | |
JavaScript | JavaScript | |
MIT License | MIT License |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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.
SocketCluster
Posts with mentions or reviews of SocketCluster.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-12.
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Why messaging is much better than REST for inter-microservice communications
Interesting how this feature set is pretty much exactly the same as offered by SocketCluster https://socketcluster.io/
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Looking for real-time message solution recommendations
The two best lightweight solutions I have worked with are SocketCluster and NATS. SocketCluster is used to build out a custom backend that scales very well. NATS would be used as a central pub/sub system. If you need queueing, you'll need to add additional services like Redis.
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Top WebSocket libraries for Node.js in 2022
At the time of writing, SocketCluster has almost 6k stars on GitHub and 7k downloads on npm weekly,
SocketCluster is a highly scalable framework and a real-time HTTP server engine that enables you to build multi-process, real-time servers using all of the available CPU cores at once. With SocketCluster, the backend avoids running the Node.js server as a single thread, working more efficiently and remaining resilient.
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SocketCluster. The most underrated framework. Part 1: Intoduction
SocketCluster is a framework which allows you to use the WebSocket protocol the transmit between its backend API and client library. The client can be used both on a backend (E.g. a Raspberry pi) or frontend application.
SockJS
Posts with mentions or reviews of SockJS.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-18.
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WebSockets and Node.js - testing WS and SockJS by building a web app
SockJS is a library that mimics the native WebSockets API. Additionally, it will fall back to HTTP whenever a WebSocket fails to connect, or if the browser being used doesn’t support WebSockets. Like WS, SockJS requires a server counterpart; its maintainers provide both a JavaScript client library and a Node.js server library.
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Top WebSocket libraries for Node.js in 2022
SockJS is a JavaScript library that provides communication between the client and the server in a way similar to the native WebSockets API. SockJS functions with a server counterpart in the form of sockjs-node and SockJS-client, a JavaScript client library.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing SocketCluster and SockJS you can also consider the following projects:
Socket.io - Realtime application framework (Node.JS server)
deepstream.io - deepstream.io server
Primus - :zap: Primus, the creator god of the transformers & an abstraction layer for real-time to prevent module lock-in.
Faye - Simple pub/sub messaging for the web
Straw - Realtime processing framework for Node.js
comfyui-mixlab-nodes - Workflow-to-APP、ScreenShare&FloatingVideo、GPT & 3D、SpeechRecognition&TTS
deployd - a toolkit for building realtime APIs
Kalm - Moved to https://github.com/kalm/kalm.js