Socket.io Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   TrailBase

    12 likes

   TrailBase offers a blazingly fast, open-source application server featuring type-safe APIs and real-time data. Built on Rust, with JS/ES6/TS runtime, it provides built-in authentication, admin UI, and low-latency responses. Supports mobile, web, and desktop, eliminating the need for dedicated caches.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application typeApplication types

   • Backend as a Service
   • Web Server

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Self-Hosted
   • Docker

   • United States

   

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   Primus

    2 likes

   Primus, the creator god of transformers but now also known as universal wrapper for real-time frameworks. There are a lot of real-time frameworks available for Node.js and they all have different opinions on how real-time should be done.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • JavaScript
   • Node.JS

   

   Good alternative?Is Primus a good alternative to Socket.io?

    
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   Jetty

    14 likes

   The Jetty Web Server provides a HTTP server and Servlet container capable of serving static and dynamic contend either from a standalone or embedded instantiations.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Web Server

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

   Good alternative?Is Jetty a good alternative to Socket.io?

    
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   JBoss

    14 likes

   JBoss is Red Hats Java EE 5-compliant (soon Java EE 6-compliant) application server. It is, as with Red Hat itself, dual-licensed either as open source (community edition) or commercially (enterprise edition).

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

   Good alternative?Is JBoss a good alternative to Socket.io?

    
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   SockJS

    1 like

   SockJS is a browser JavaScript library that provides a WebSocket-like object. SockJS gives you a coherent, cross-browser, Js API which creates a low latency, full duplex, cross-domain communication channel between the browser and the web server.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • JavaScript
   • Node.JS

   

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   eventlet

    3 likes

   Eventlet is a concurrent networking library for Python that allows you to change how you run your code, not how you write it.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Python

   

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   Ably

    7 likes

   Scalable pub/sub platform offers developers secure, low-latency, enterprise-grade realtime messaging, built-in features for GPS tracking, event updates, and automatic failover, delivering billions of messages daily to users across industries on a global edge network.

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Proprietary

   Application type

   • Backend as a Service

   Origin

   • United Kingdom

   Platforms

   • Online

   • United Kingdom

   

   

   

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    Mako Server

     2 likes

    Compact web and app server featuring Lua scripting, built-in app framework, SQLite database, async sockets, WebSocket support, SMTP, MQTT, OPC-UA, Modbus, SMQ broker, automated Let's Encrypt TLS, and instant start on multiple operating systems.

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Open Source (GPL-2.0)

    Application type

    • Web Server

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    • United States

    

    

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    SignalR

     3 likes

    ASP.NET SignalR is a new library for ASP.NET developers that makes it incredibly simple to add real-time web functionality to your applications. What is "real-time web" functionality? It's the ability to have your server-side code push content to the connected...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Windows
    • .NET Framework

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    simperium

     5 likes

    Simperium is a service for developers to move data everywhere it's needed, instantly and automatically.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium
    • Proprietary

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows

    

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    WebSocket-Node

     3 likes

    A WebSocket Implementation for Node.JS ( Draft -08 through the final RFC 6455 )

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • JavaScript
    • Node.JS

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    Pusher

     8 likes

    Pusher is a hosted API for quickly, easily and securely adding scalable realtime functionality to web and mobile apps.

    Cost / License

    • Paid
    • Proprietary

    Origin

    • United Kingdom

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Android
    • iPhone
    • Android Tablet
    • iPad

    • United Kingdom

    

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