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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.
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Building Real-Time Next.js Apps with WebSockets and Soketi
If you have never heard of Soketi, to give you a brief overview, it is a WebSocket server that was built on top of uWebSockets.js and has great compatibility with Pusher Protocol.
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8 Best WebSocket Libraries For Node
# Clone the repo w/ submodules git clone --recursive https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js.git # Cd into the folder cd uWebSockets.js # build make
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Ask HN: How do you handle WebSocket connections reconnect problem?
have you tried https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js/
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I have done a full benchmark of a POST REST API on my computer: Node.js vs Fastify vs Express.js vs Deno vs Bun vs GO. Node.js is used WITH and WITHOUT clustering on 6-core I7 processor
If you'd like to test cluster mode, then use v19.3.0 as it described here https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js/issues/593
- Simple, performant HTTP and WebSocket server using uWebSockets.js
- Millions of Active WebSockets with Node.js
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KitaJs Survey - No runtime code, fast as bare metal and top level framework.
The fastest node framework is uWebSockets (as they claim, I didn't try it yet), so if Kita's goal is to maximize performance - you should check on it.
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Can the performance of the clustered nodejs application compete with (or be better than) the performance of .NET Core-6-7?
I'm serving several hundred thousands queries per second from a single nodejs server (multithreaded) with this: https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js/
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Here is a fun question:
https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js/ ^ this is the best for performance
What are some alternatives?
fastify-websocket - basic websocket support for fastify
Socket.io - Realtime application framework (Node.JS server)
pws - Just another simple, fast, and resilient open-source WebSockets server. 📣 [Moved to: https://github.com/soketi/soketi]
redux-toolkit - The official, opinionated, batteries-included toolset for efficient Redux development
graphql-ws - Coherent, zero-dependency, lazy, simple, GraphQL over WebSocket Protocol compliant server and client.
subscriptions-transport-ws - :arrows_clockwise: A WebSocket client + server for GraphQL subscriptions
Passport - Simple, unobtrusive authentication for Node.js.
jelly-actix-web-starter - A starter template for actix-web projects that feels very Django-esque. Avoid the boring stuff and move faster.
µWebSockets - Simple, secure & standards compliant web server for the most demanding of applications