uWebSockets.js VS Express

Compare uWebSockets.js vs Express and see what are their differences.

Our great sponsors
  • WorkOS - The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS
  • InfluxDB - Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale
  • SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews
uWebSockets.js Express
32 674
7,272 63,771
2.9% 0.7%
8.2 8.3
about 1 month ago 5 days ago
C++ JavaScript
Apache License 2.0 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.

uWebSockets.js

Posts with mentions or reviews of uWebSockets.js. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-10.

Express

Posts with mentions or reviews of Express. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-26.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing uWebSockets.js and Express you can also consider the following projects:

fastify-websocket - basic websocket support for fastify

Next.js - The React Framework

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

SvelteKit - web development, streamlined

pws - Just another simple, fast, and resilient open-source WebSockets server. 📣 [Moved to: https://github.com/soketi/soketi]

Nuxt.js - Nuxt is an intuitive and extendable way to create type-safe, performant and production-grade full-stack web apps and websites with Vue 3. [Moved to: https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt]

Socket.io - Realtime application framework (Node.JS server)

AdonisJs Application

subscriptions-transport-ws - :arrows_clockwise: A WebSocket client + server for GraphQL subscriptions

Restify - The future of Node.js REST development

jelly-actix-web-starter - A starter template for actix-web projects that feels very Django-esque. Avoid the boring stuff and move faster.

fastify - Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js