What approach would you suggest when trying to build an instant chat feature?

• Socket.io

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  Realtime application framework (Node.JS server)

  

I've never run into any serious issues using socket.io for small chat-type features, but if you need anything more advanced(ex. video calls), I'd look into WebRTC. Haven't used it myself, yet, but this is the first place I'd look if I were to start building a more advanced comms app.

• pusher-js

  39 2,072 3.4 JavaScript

  Pusher Javascript library

  

Use something like Pusher or Ably. It will make your life infinitely easier and will work with horizontally scaling backends.

• SurveyJS

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• xiome

  9 11 4.8 TypeScript

  open-source cloud-powered web components

we're recently finishing up an open source livechat system for our project xiome, here's the node server code.

• renraku

  5 3 4.6 TypeScript

  web api library

we're using websockets via our experimental renraku api library, which internally uses ws on the serverside (we found ws preferable to socket.io)

• demo_teqfw_events_tiktok

  1 0 0.0 HTML

  Demo application for event driven communication in teq-apps

See principal demo here: https://github.com/flancer64/demo_teqfw_events_tiktok

• InfluxDB

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