What are the differences between UDP and WebSockets, and which type of games benefit from which?

• webrtc-unreliable

  8 385 5.7 Rust

  Just enough hacks to get unreliable unordered WebRTC data channels between a browser and a server

  

You can, in theory, get UDP-like characteristics out of a different web API - with a WebRTC datachannel configured to be unreliable and unordered. I haven't seen anybody use that API just because it's a pretty big pain to use. The developer of Agar IO called it too hard to use in a HackerNews comment, but nowadays there's simpler libraries than the ones he had in 2016 like webrtc-unreliable and libdatachannel. You still need to run a STUN/TURN server and the integration is easier than it was back then, but still much harder than raw UDP sockets though.

• libdatachannel

  27 1,543 9.3 C++

  C/C++ WebRTC network library featuring Data Channels, Media Transport, and WebSockets

You can, in theory, get UDP-like characteristics out of a different web API - with a WebRTC datachannel configured to be unreliable and unordered. I haven't seen anybody use that API just because it's a pretty big pain to use. The developer of Agar IO called it too hard to use in a HackerNews comment, but nowadays there's simpler libraries than the ones he had in 2016 like webrtc-unreliable and libdatachannel. You still need to run a STUN/TURN server and the integration is easier than it was back then, but still much harder than raw UDP sockets though.

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