subscriptions-transport-ws VS react-relay

Compare subscriptions-transport-ws vs react-relay and see what are their differences.

subscriptions-transport-ws

:arrows_clockwise: A WebSocket client + server for GraphQL subscriptions (by apollographql)

react-relay

Relay is a JavaScript framework for building data-driven React applications. (by facebook)
Our great sponsors
  • SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
subscriptions-transport-ws react-relay
11 50
1,515 18,180
- 0.3%
6.2 9.7
about 2 years ago 5 days ago
TypeScript Rust
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.

subscriptions-transport-ws

Posts with mentions or reviews of subscriptions-transport-ws. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-09.
  • Fixing a 3 second lockup in our app by switching from Apollo Client to URQL
    2 projects | dev.to | 9 Feb 2023
    Additionally, we created a bit more work for ourselves by upgrading the library we use for GraphQL subscriptions over web sockets, moving from the seemingly unmaintained subscriptions-transport-ws to the active graphql-ws project (which is URLQ’s library of choice for subscriptions).
  • Is this a graphql thing or JSON thing?
    2 projects | /r/graphql | 27 Dec 2021
  • GraphQL Subscriptions and Mikro-Orm in 2021
    2 projects | dev.to | 14 Oct 2021
    Okay but seriously, if you've fallen down the rabbit hole of Apollo docs pointing you towards one library (subscription-transport-ws) which then points you to another (graphql-ws) , and so on and so forth, then hopefully this helps pull you out.
  • Looking for GraphQL server with ws-transport ability
    3 projects | /r/rust | 10 Oct 2021
    I'm looking for graphql server that can do queries and mutations over websocket, like subscriptions-transport-ws. Juniper and async-graphql both looks promising and async-graphql at least uses wording Subscriptions (WebSocket transport) in features but i couldn't find much more or any examples about that from the docs or repo.
  • three ways to deploy a serverless graphQL API
    13 projects | dev.to | 4 Oct 2021
    graphql-yoga is built on other packages that provide functionality required for building a GraphQL server such as web server frameworks like express and apollo-server, GraphQL subscriptions with graphql-subscriptions and subscriptions-transport-ws, GraphQL engine & schema helpers including graphql.js and graphql-tools, and an interactive GraphQL IDE with graphql-playground.
  • How does a client know if the server managing its subscription goes offline? (Multiple instances)
    2 projects | /r/graphql | 23 Sep 2021
    The javascript implementation is at subscriptions-transport-ws
  • GraphQL over WebSockets
    9 projects | dev.to | 29 Jul 2021
    Okay, so, how do I use WebSockets to add support for the GraphQL subscription operation? Doing a basic Google search, you’d be faced with a single solution, namely subscriptions-transport-ws. Looking through the repository, checking recent comments, reading through the issues and open PRs - might have you notice the abundance of bugs and their security implications. A summary can be found here.
  • The Stack #3
    22 projects | dev.to | 29 Jul 2021
    While subscription-transport-ws from Apollo initially started off this journey, it is not actively maintained and GraphQL WS by Denis definitely is a great replacement to that having no external dependencies and having the ability to work across many frameworks.
  • I need a little help implementing user online status tracking with Apollo/GraphQL.
    7 projects | /r/graphql | 10 Jun 2021
    apollo-server plans to remove WebSocket support, which is currenlty done over the deprecated graphql-ws protocol (as implemented by the unmaintained subscription-transport-ws module by apollo), in the next major version.
  • GraphQL Query and Mutation over Websockets
    3 projects | /r/graphql | 6 Jun 2021
    https://github.com/apollographql/subscriptions-transport-ws, which is used by Apollo Server does support executing queries and mutations actually but you are better off moving away it anyway (check the text in their README!)

react-relay

Posts with mentions or reviews of react-relay. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-08-30.
  • How To Handle Data With GraphQL Relay Client Schema Extensions
    1 project | dev.to | 16 Jan 2024
    GraphQL Relay is one of the most powerful GraphQL clients that you can found on the web environment. It provides to you a lot of features that lets your development flow in a scalable way.
  • GraphQL clients that automatically combine queries/fragments
    1 project | /r/graphql | 7 Dec 2023
    GQty (https://gqty.dev/) and Relay (https://relay.dev/) will combine fragments or queries you request in your React components and will handle combining these / getting the data each component needs with as few queries as is possible. Are there any other clients I’ve missed? It’s not immediately clear to me whether this is possible with Urql via Exchanges (https://formidable.com/open-source/urql/docs/advanced/authoring-exchanges/).
  • Server-side Rendering (SSR) From Scratch with React
    5 projects | dev.to | 30 Aug 2023
    Inside Woovi, our entire codebase is managed by GraphQL using the Relay client framework. To ensure the best UX possible for our final user, we give some useful features in our payment link, like the real-time update after paying a charge. It's all handled by our GraphQL, which won't be solvable by templates in our use case.
  • Seeking advice: Should I continue my Web Developer job or pursue my passion for compilers?
    2 projects | /r/ExperiencedDevs | 17 Apr 2023
    Since you mentioned Node CRUD APIs, I'd probably suggest looking at Relay/GraphQL. Would give you exposure to some interesting and employable skills that wouldn't require you learning an entirely new domain on top of it. They are rewriting the current compiler in Rust, which since you mentioned Rust might be interesting to follow. Uneducated takes, but GraphQL is a schema IDL, so would probably be a good place to start to minimize lexical complexity while still having some cool abstract concepts to learn (interfaces, unions, etc).
  • Compressing GraphQL Global Node ID
    2 projects | dev.to | 10 Apr 2023
    You may be familiar with Global Object Identification(GOI), especially if you've used Relay.
  • Top React Data Fetching Libraries
    7 projects | dev.to | 31 Mar 2023
    Relay (17k ⭐) -> The production-ready GraphQL client for React, developed by Facebook, was designed to be performant from the ground up, built upon locally declaring data dependencies for components.
  • Twitter open sources Navi: High-Performance Machine Learning Serving Server in Rust
    5 projects | /r/rust | 31 Mar 2023
    I think open sourcing for free labor is a common misconception. Most corporate led open source projects (eg, https://github.com/bottlerocket-os/bottlerocket from AWS or https://github.com/facebook/relay from Facebook) still require a team of employees.
  • How Woovi uses Relay?
    3 projects | dev.to | 13 Mar 2023
    If you look at relay.dev, Relay is the GraphQL client that scales with you. This definition is simple and defines Relay pretty well for the ones that already know all the features that Relay brings to the table.
  • Relay – The GraphQL client that scales with you
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Feb 2023
  • Is it possible to create a symbolic link to a folder to solve case sensitivity?
    5 projects | /r/linuxquestions | 1 Dec 2022
    https://github.com/psf/black/issues/338 https://github.com/VeriorPies/ParrelSync/issues/61 https://github.com/prusa3d/PrusaSlicer/issues/5751 https://github.com/iterative/dvc/issues/2530 https://github.com/facebook/relay/issues/3647 And I know godmode9 at one point absolutely freaked when navigating into a symlink. It kinda depends on the app and what it's trying to load

What are some alternatives?

When comparing subscriptions-transport-ws and react-relay you can also consider the following projects:

graphql-ws - Coherent, zero-dependency, lazy, simple, GraphQL over WebSocket Protocol compliant server and client.

react-query - 🤖 Powerful asynchronous state management, server-state utilities and data fetching for TS/JS, React, Solid, Svelte and Vue. [Moved to: https://github.com/TanStack/query]

uWebSockets.js - μWebSockets for Node.js back-ends :metal:

apollo-client - :rocket:  A fully-featured, production ready caching GraphQL client for every UI framework and GraphQL server.

mercurius - Implement GraphQL servers and gateways with Fastify

SWR - React Hooks for Data Fetching

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

axios - Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js

fastify-websocket - basic websocket support for fastify

urql - The highly customizable and versatile GraphQL client with which you add on features like normalized caching as you grow.

altair - ✨⚡️ A beautiful feature-rich GraphQL Client for all platforms.

dataloader - DataLoader is a generic utility to be used as part of your application's data fetching layer to provide a consistent API over various backends and reduce requests to those backends via batching and caching.