engine.io
The engine used in the Socket.IO JavaScript server, which manages the low-level transports such as HTTP long-polling and WebSocket. (by socketio)
Primus
:zap: Primus, the creator god of the transformers & an abstraction layer for real-time to prevent module lock-in. (by primus)
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engine.io | Primus | |
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3 | 3 | |
4,586 | 4,463 | |
0.3% | 0.1% | |
6.5 | 5.3 | |
26 days ago | 6 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.
engine.io
Posts with mentions or reviews of engine.io.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-28.
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We Improved Reliability of Our WebSocket Connections
Ah, yep, that explains it.
They do solve this problem as documented: https://github.com/socketio/engine.io/blob/64d57545116c7a7d9...
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socket.io-client dosnt work
Try engine.io (https://github.com/socketio/engine.io) which will eventually be merged in Socket.io.
Primus
Posts with mentions or reviews of Primus.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-06.
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Technologies to create a chat application with different channels like Slack?
Socket.io would work, but I'd recommend using primus with uws https://github.com/primus/primus
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We Improved Reliability of Our WebSocket Connections
Indeed it does! https://github.com/primus/primus/blob/a7ba7249cb0205a01629da...
I do wish we didn't all have to reinvent this wheel though…
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Primus and async plugins
Did anyone use primus and knows if it supports async plugins?
What are some alternatives?
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