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

What I can say is that if you will use Gorilla Websocket (https://github.com/gorilla/websocket) (it's archived now unfortunately, but still super robust) - then you can go to sth like 15-20kb per connection - see https://github.com/FZambia/go_websocket_memory - to achieve this you need to reduce read buffer size, reuse write buffers, use goroutine after hijacking connection (following chat example in Gorilla WebSocket repo).

No Bugs? https://github.com/gorilla/websocket/issues Even if that were true at the time of stoping development, "No bugs" is something that can never be said for any software. I really wish this community stopped recomending to use abandoned libraries if only for the potential Security issues. A not maintained Library is a very lucrative target for vulnerability hunting.

The Gorilla WebSocket License says:

We'll be using WebSocket library: "github.com/gorilla/websocket" ❣️

package github.com/gorilla/websocket is not a main package

As for Websockets, (https://github.com/gorilla/websocket) it uses ws.NextReader() to handle heavy loads of connections.

I'm looking to build a game server that uses web sockets to communicate with clients, I've looked into some of the libraries and the main ones seem to be gorilla websockets and melody.

If this is what your import looks like "github.com/gorilla/websocket" that's wrong it should be just "github.com/gorilla/websocket"