wasmws VS websocket

Thanks for writing this! I found it really great to use when I wrote https://github.com/tarndt/wasmws

Before looking at the readme, I thought this was an alternative to using https://github.com/tarndt/wasmws which lets you use gRPC over websockets so that you can use gPRC via WASM without needing an http to gRPC gateway. Now I'm understanding a bit differently. It looks like this uses protobufs but doesn't have anything to do with gRPC at all, instead implementing some of the communication parts of gRPC while ignoring the generation of services but instead focusing a bit more on message routing and pub/sub that you would probably still need NATS.io for if you were using gRPC.

The hijacking a websocket works very well, live in the future today! https://github.com/tarndt/wasmws

Everything said above is valid, but if you do think you have a need to transpile... consider running any Go frontend code as WASM rather than Javascript. A few years ago I started doing my frontends and backends all in Go and its been wonderful. I even wrote a library so I could use gRPC from my WASM/Go frontends rather than REST: https://github.com/tarndt/wasmws . Extra wonderful, at least for my tastes. Once caveat is if your brotli compressed, CDN/browser cached, etagged Go WASM is still to big, you can usually make it even smaller by using tinygo rather than the std tool chain for the compiling to WASM.

A while back I was writing a pure Go frontend app (WASM) and I wrote this so I could use gRPC rather than REST to talk to my backend: https://github.com/tarndt/wasmws

In my experience Go has been relatively approachable for people that are good at PHP. It has a great standard library and a pretty solid ecosystem, though frameworks aren’t as popular in Go. There are some well regarded libraries for things like WebRTC via https://github.com/pion/webrtc WebSicket via https://github.com/nhooyr/websocket

Also take a look at https://github.com/nhooyr/websocket - which is a good ws library, but I don't have anything specific about its memory usage per connection. But from what I see it will be somewhat similar to x/net/websocket.

nhooyr/websocket, shollz/pake, charmbracelet/bubbles, charmbracelet/bubbletea, charmbracelet/lipgloss, muesli/reflow, klauspost/pgzip and many, many more.

link: https://github.com/nhooyr/websocket

There's https://github.com/gobwas/ws and https://github.com/nhooyr/websocket but neither have seen a commit in over a year

The last time I was using websockets, I found https://github.com/gobwas/ws to be a huge improvement over Gorilla, but I haven't been looking recently, and perhaps Gorilla was able to shed some of its bloat and improve API and performance since then.