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21,000 | 6,109 | |
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6 days ago | 22 days ago | |
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MIT License | MIT License |
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Setting up a WebSocket server in Node.js
Before setting up a WebSocket server in Node.js, we need to install the necessary dependencies. Fortunately, Node.js has a vibrant ecosystem with various WebSocket libraries available. In this article, we will focus on using the popular ws library, which provides a simple and efficient WebSocket implementation for Node.js.
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8 Best WebSocket Libraries For Node
WS has a user base of 17.7 million people and over 20,000 forks. It also has clear and concise documentation, with examples and API references, to help developers understand how to integrate it into their projects.
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WebSockets 101
In order to implement websockets, you can use a nodejs library named ws. It provides a fast and simple way to establish a websocket connection.
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Is there anyway to auto reload the browser page when using express?
Next, you can use a library like chokidar to listen for changes in your source directory. Create a ws server, and whenever a file changes, send a message.
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Is my health check endpoint good enough?
I use redis, sequelize and PG Listen/Notify via Robust Listeners with a websocket server coded in ws
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7 Useful JavaScript Libraries To Build a Real-Time Web App
With over 19k stars on GitHub and about 60 million weekly downloads on npm, ws is one of the most popular open-source libraries for real-time web application development
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Nest JS Websockets - Basics
Nest supports 2 websocket platforms - socket.io and ws. We're going to be using socket.io.
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Render.com and Websocket: Connection randomly being closed after 5-ish minutes?
I'm trying out Render.com as a potential replacement for Heroku to host and run my code, which uses Node, Express, and the ws package to connect a game made on Godot Engine and the webapp, using a Websocket connection. However, when I migrated the code over, I've noticed that the game lasts barely a quarter of the way before the server aborts the Websocket connection for literally no reason. I'm serious, it's what the log says:
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Quick introduction to WebSockets with Node.js
If you want to learn more about WebSockets, check out the official documentation.
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5 enhancements that will boost your Node.js app
Making use of Web Sockets to improve server communication.
SocketCluster
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Is it a good practice to store web sockets connections on redis?
If redis doesn't satisfy your requirements or you're unable to make it work using adaptor, SocketCluster is a great package for this https://socketcluster.io/
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Why messaging is much better than REST for inter-microservice communications
Interesting how this feature set is pretty much exactly the same as offered by SocketCluster https://socketcluster.io/
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On the Unhappiness of Software Developers
This resonates with me 100%. Every bit of unhappiness I've felt in my career so far has been caused by a bad manager. The main issue for me has been the final point you mentioned about "Imposed artificial limitations" - I cannot tell you the number of times that I've been forced to use an inefficient tool or do something in a sub-optimal or downright incorrect way (knowing that it would have to be re-written later) by a bad manager... In some companies, it was a daily occurrence; that's why I never stayed at a single company for longer than 2 years. It's almost impossible to find a company that lets me implement things correctly.
Thankfully, nobody could constrain me in my open source work. I (with the help of community members) built:
- SocketCluster (https://socketcluster.io/): A distributed pub/sub framework.
- Capitalisk (https://capitalisk.com/): A lightweight quantum-resistant blockchain which is less than 5K lines of code.
- LDEX (https://ldex.trading/): A deterministic decentralized exchange (DEX) which can work with many different blockchain protocols. It's less than 4K lines of code in total and only has 3 small third-party dependencies (including sub-dependencies).
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Looking for real-time message solution recommendations
The two best lightweight solutions I have worked with are SocketCluster and NATS. SocketCluster is used to build out a custom backend that scales very well. NATS would be used as a central pub/sub system. If you need queueing, you'll need to add additional services like Redis.
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How to define RPC server with SocketCluster.
In the homepage for SocketCluster it is mentioned that it is a Highly scalable pub/sub and RPC framework optimized for async/await. However in the documentation I have not found anything related to RPC. Am I interpreting anything wrong here?
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Top WebSocket libraries for Node.js in 2022
At the time of writing, SocketCluster has almost 6k stars on GitHub and 7k downloads on npm weekly,
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SocketCluster. The most underrated framework. Part 1: Intoduction
SocketCluster is a framework which allows you to use the WebSocket protocol the transmit between its backend API and client library. The client can be used both on a backend (E.g. a Raspberry pi) or frontend application.
What are some alternatives?
fastify-websocket - basic websocket support for fastify
Socket.io - Realtime application framework (Node.JS server)
uWebSockets.js - μWebSockets for Node.js back-ends :metal:
deepstream.io - deepstream.io server
Primus - :zap: Primus, the creator god of the transformers & an abstraction layer for real-time to prevent module lock-in.
redux-toolkit - The official, opinionated, batteries-included toolset for efficient Redux development
SockJS - WebSocket emulation - Node.js server
graphql-ws - Coherent, zero-dependency, lazy, simple, GraphQL over WebSocket Protocol compliant server and client.
Faye - Simple pub/sub messaging for the web
Passport - Simple, unobtrusive authentication for Node.js.
Straw - Realtime processing framework for Node.js