TCP or websockets for chat server

• Mercure

  19 3,736 8.5 Go

  🪽 An open, easy, fast, reliable and battery-efficient solution for real-time communications

https://github.com/dunglas/mercure being a good example

• quic-go

  28 9,452 9.5 Go

  A QUIC implementation in pure Go

  

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• websocket

  44 18,557 5.3 Go

  Discontinued A fast, well-tested and widely used WebSocket implementation for Go.

  

Hello, +1 to WebSockets. If you need to choose WS library – go with https://github.com/gorilla/websocket or https://github.com/gobwas/ws. You can also look at Centrifugo server (https://centrifugal.dev/, supports WebSocket, SockJS bidi transports, also EventSource, HTTP-streaming, GRPC unidirectional transports and many builtin features) or https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifuge Go library.

• ws

  14 5,950 5.9 Go

  Tiny WebSocket library for Go. (by gobwas)

Hello, +1 to WebSockets. If you need to choose WS library – go with https://github.com/gorilla/websocket or https://github.com/gobwas/ws. You can also look at Centrifugo server (https://centrifugal.dev/, supports WebSocket, SockJS bidi transports, also EventSource, HTTP-streaming, GRPC unidirectional transports and many builtin features) or https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifuge Go library.

• centrifuge

  13 979 8.5 Go

  Real-time messaging library for Go. The simplest way to add feature-rich and scalable WebSocket support to your application. The core of Centrifugo server.

  

Hello, +1 to WebSockets. If you need to choose WS library – go with https://github.com/gorilla/websocket or https://github.com/gobwas/ws. You can also look at Centrifugo server (https://centrifugal.dev/, supports WebSocket, SockJS bidi transports, also EventSource, HTTP-streaming, GRPC unidirectional transports and many builtin features) or https://github.com/centrifugal/centrifuge Go library.

• Socket.io

  825 60,129 7.8 TypeScript

  Realtime application framework (Node.JS server)

  

You can use the socket.io framework for something like this. It is a real time communication framework built on top of websocket (and other alternative transports) that allows you implement something like chat with minimal effort.

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