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rpc-websockets
JSON-RPC 2.0 implementation over WebSockets for Node.js
The rpc-websockets library enables developers to easily implement their business logic that includes messaging between users, machines or any devices. It provides a possibility to send and receive JSON data through the WebSocket communication protocol in order to support two-way notification push, running RPC methods and firing any types of event signalling. Only clients can call RPC methods and not vice versa at the moment. Both frontend (HTML/JS-based) and backend (Node.js-based) development environments are supported. -
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GWS
Simple, fast, reliable websocket server & client
GWS is a high-performance WebSocket library for Go that provides both server and client capabilities. It is designed for high-concurrency use cases such as API gateways, chat systems, reverse proxies, online games, real-time streaming, and push or subscription services. The library exposes a minimal event-driven API, allowing developers to build WebSocket applications with relatively little code. It supports standard TCP usage as well as WebSocket operation over KCP and Unix domain sockets. GWS also includes practical features for connection handling, compression, heartbeat management, UTF-8 validation, and scalable read or write loops. It is a strong fit for Go developers who need a lightweight but feature-complete WebSocket foundation for real-time applications. -
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libhv
Network library for developing TCP/UDP/SSL/HTTP/WebSocket/MQTT client
Like libevent, libev, and libuv, libhv provides event loop with non-blocking IO and timer, but simpler api and richer protocols. Cross-platform (Linux, Windows, MacOS, BSD, Solaris, Android, iOS) High-performance EventLoop (IO, timer, idle, custom) TCP/UDP client/server/proxy. TCP supports heartbeat, reconnect, upstream, MultiThread-safe write and close, etc. Built-in common unpacking modes (FixedLength, Delimiter, LengthField) RUDP support: WITH_KCP. SSL/TLS support: (via WITH_OPENSSL or WITH_GNUTLS or WITH_MBEDTLS) HTTP client/server (support https http1/x http2 grpc). HTTP supports static service, indexof service, proxy service, sync/async API handler. HTTP supports RESTful, router, middleware, keep-alive, chunked, SSE, etc. WebSocket client/server. -
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SuperSocket
Extensible socket server application framework for .NET
SuperSocket is a high-performance, extensible socket server framework for .NET applications. It provides a structured foundation for building custom network communication servers without manually implementing every low-level socket concern. The framework supports multiple protocols, including TCP, UDP, and WebSocket, and gives developers a modular architecture for protocol parsing, session handling, command processing, and server hosting. It is suitable for chat servers, game servers, IoT gateways, telemetry services, industrial systems, and other real-time network applications. SuperSocket is designed to be flexible enough for custom binary or text protocols while still offering reusable abstractions for common server patterns. It is most useful for .NET teams that need robust networking infrastructure with room for domain-specific protocol logic. -
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Melody
Minimalist websocket framework for Go
Melody is a minimalist WebSocket framework for Go that wraps the standard WebSocket workflow in a simple, developer-friendly API. It is designed to make real-time server features easier to build without requiring a large framework or complex setup. Developers can use it for chat systems, live notifications, dashboards, multiplayer coordination, collaborative tools, and other bidirectional communication features. Melody provides connection lifecycle hooks, message handlers, broadcasting, session management, and grouped communication patterns. It is built to feel familiar to Go developers and can be integrated into existing HTTP applications. The project is especially useful when a team needs straightforward WebSocket behavior without building connection handling and broadcast logic from scratch. -
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socket.io
Realtime application framework (Node.JS server)
socket.io is a JavaScript library that allows for realtime, bi-directional communication between web clients and servers. It is composed of two parts: a Node.js server and a JavaScript client library that runs in the browser. socket.io is focused on both reliability and speed, delivering an immensely powerful, fast and yet easy to use realtime engine that’s used by just about everyone: from Microsoft Office and Zendesk to hackathon winners and small startups. It’s considered one of the most depended-upon npm modules, and works on every platform, browser or device. -
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tokio-tungstenite
Future-based Tungstenite for Tokio
tokio-tungstenite is a Rust library that connects the Tungstenite WebSocket implementation with the Tokio asynchronous runtime. It lets developers build non-blocking WebSocket clients and servers using Tokio’s async networking model. The crate wraps asynchronous TCP streams and upgrades them into WebSocket streams that integrate naturally with Rust futures and async tasks. It is useful for real-time services, streaming applications, chat systems, gateways, backend infrastructure, and any Rust project that needs WebSocket communication without blocking threads. Because it builds on Tungstenite, it inherits a standards-focused WebSocket protocol foundation while adding Tokio compatibility. It is a practical choice for Rust developers who need efficient, event-driven WebSocket networking. -
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Mongoose Embedded Web Server
An embedded web server
Mongoose is a networking library for C/C++. It implements event-driven non-blocking APIs for TCP, UDP, HTTP, WebSocket, MQTT. It is designed for connecting devices and bringing them online. On the market since 2004, used by vast number of open source and commercial products - it even runs on the International Space Station! Mongoose makes embedded network programming fast, robust, and easy. Cross-platform, works on Linux/UNIX, MacOS, Windows, Android, FreeRTOS, etc. Supported embedded architectures: ESP32, NRF52, STM32, NXP, and more. Built-in protocols: plain TCP/UDP, HTTP, MQTT, Websocket. SSL/TLS support: mbedTLS, OpenSSL or custom (via API). Used to solve a wide range of business needs, like implementing Web UI interface on devices, RESTful API services, telemetry data exchange, remote control for a product, remote software updates, remote monitoring, and others. -
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Autobahn|Python
WebSocket and WAMP in Python for Twisted and asyncio
Autobahn Python is a networking library for building Python applications that use WebSocket and WAMP. It supports both Twisted and asyncio, giving developers flexibility depending on their preferred Python event framework. The WebSocket layer enables bidirectional real-time messaging between clients and servers. The WAMP layer adds routed remote procedure calls and publish-subscribe messaging for distributed applications. Autobahn Python is useful for dashboards, IoT systems, collaborative apps, backend services, messaging platforms, and applications that need real-time communication across components. It works especially well with a WAMP router such as Crossbar.io when building routed multi-service systems. -
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Proxyee
HTTP proxy server,support HTTPS & websocket
Proxyee is a JAVA-written HTTP proxy server library that supports HTTP, HTTPS, and WebSocket protocols, and supports MITM (Man-in-the-middle), which can capture and tamper with HTTP, and HTTPS packets. The CA certificate (src/resources/ca.crt) from the project needs to be imported to a trusted root certificate authority. The CA certificate (src/resources/ca.crt) from the project needs to be imported to a trusted root certificate authority. You can use the CertDownIntercept interceptor to enable the web certificate download feature. -
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Rhubarb
A WebSocket library optimized for multiplayer JS games
Rhubarb is a lightweight WebSocket library for multiplayer HTML5 games. It is originally designed to be used by the ROYGBIV Engine. However, it can be used outside of ROYGBIV as well. Javascript is slow, therefore we want to have as much main-process-power as we can in order to do game related calculations, graphics rendering and achieving 60 FPS. For multiplayer games achieving 60 FPS gets even more complicated given that transferring data over WebSockets is a slow operation. It also triggers GC activity by copying the transferred data (if JSON is the preferred way), which eventually slows down the main thread as well. -
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SockJS-client
WebSocket emulation and Javascript client
SockJS is a browser JavaScript library that provides a WebSocket-like object. SockJS gives you a coherent, cross-browser, Javascript API which creates a low latency, full duplex, cross-domain communication channel between the browser and the web server. Under the hood SockJS tries to use native WebSockets first. If that fails it can use a variety of browser-specific transport protocols and presents them through WebSocket-like abstractions. SockJS is intended to work for all modern browsers and in environments which don't support the WebSocket protocol, for example, behind restrictive corporate proxies. SockJS-client does require a server counterpart, such as SockJS-node, which is a SockJS server for Node.js. The API should follow HTML5 Websockets API as closely as possible. All the transports must support cross domain connections out of the box. It's possible and recommended to host a SockJS server on a different server than your main web site. -
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GoWebSocket
golang supports million-connection distributed chat (IM) system
GoWebSocket is a Go-based distributed WebSocket chat and instant messaging system designed around very high connection counts. It demonstrates how to build a scalable IM architecture using Go, Gin, Nginx load balancing, horizontal deployment, and internal service communication. The project uses gRPC for communication between program components and is structured to support distributed real-time messaging rather than a single-process chat demo. Its documentation highlights single-machine million-connection goals, making performance and concurrency central to the design. gowebsocket is useful for developers studying large-scale WebSocket systems, chat backends, connection management, and Go network programming. It is best treated as a technical reference and learning project for distributed real-time architecture. -
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Scarlet
A Retrofit inspired WebSocket client for Kotlin, Java, and Android
A Retrofit-inspired WebSocket client for Kotlin, Java, and Android. We are working on a new version of Scarlet that supports other persistent connection protocols: ServerSentEvent, Socket IO, STOMP, and MQTT. It can be found on the 0.2.x branch. -
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SNI Cloudflare MASQUE All Countries
Value Added Warp over WebSocket via CDN Tunnel
UDP Over SSL Tunnel UDP Over SSL Tunnel is a free SSL tool with SNI Host (Spoof Host) support ( SSL Injector ). Warp-over-WebSocket-CDN Bypass ISP throttling and DPI by tunneling Cloudflare Warp traffic over WebSocket with Host Header spoofing through major CDN networks (CloudFront / Cloudflare / Akamai). Platform Protocol Tunnel License What It Does Many ISPs throttle or block VPN traffic using Deep Packet Inspection (DPI). Warp-over-WebSocket-CDN wraps WireGuard UDP inside a WebSocket connection with a spoofed Host header, routing traffic through major CDN edge networks (CloudFront, Cloudflare, or Akamai). To any firewall or DPI system, the traffic looks like a legitimate WebSocket upgrade to a CDN-hosted domain. Result: Full Cloudflare Warp speed and privacy, even on heavily restricted networks — including campus, corporate, and ISP-level DPI systems. -
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arduinoWebSockets
arduinoWebSockets
A WebSocket Server and Client for Arduino based on RFC6455. -
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uWebSockets.js
μWebSockets for Node.js back-ends
µWebSockets.js is a web server bypass for Node.js that reimplements eventing, networking, encryption, web protocols, routing and pub/sub in highly optimized C++. As such, µWebSockets.js delivers web serving for Node.js, 8.5x that of Fastify and at least 10x that of Socket.IO. It is also the built-in web server of Bun. -
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websocket for Go
Minimal and idiomatic WebSocket library for Go
websocket is a minimal and idiomatic WebSocket library for Go. Minimal and idiomatic API. First class context.Context support. Fully passes the WebSocket autobahn-testsuite. Single dependency. JSON and protobuf helpers in the wsjson and wspb subpackages. Zero alloc reads and writes. Concurrent writes. Close handshake. net.Conn wrapper. Ping pong API. RFC 7692 permessage-deflate compression. Compile to Wasm. Transparent message buffer reuse with wsjson and wspb subpackages. Gorilla writes directly to a net.Conn and so duplicates features of net/http.Client. Gorilla requires registering a pong callback before sending a Ping. Compare godoc of nhooyr.io/websocket with gorilla/websocket side by side. Will enable easy HTTP/2 support in the future. -
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ws
Tiny WebSocket library for Go
Zero-copy upgrade. No intermediate allocations during I/O. Low-level API which allows building your own logic of packet handling and buffers reuse. High-level wrappers and helpers around API in wsutil package, which allow to start fast without digging the protocol internals. Existing WebSocket implementations do not allow users to reuse I/O buffers between connections in clear way. This library aims to export efficient low-level interface for working with the protocol without forcing only one way it could be used. Library is tagged as v1* so its API must not be broken during some improvements or refactoring. Example applications using ws are developed in separate repository ws-examples. We can apply the same pattern to read and write structured responses through a JSON encoder and decoder.Zero-copy upgrade helps to avoid unnecessary allocations and copying while handling HTTP Upgrade request. -
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µWebSockets
Compliant web server for the most demanding of applications
Being meticulously optimized for speed and memory footprint, µWebSockets is fast enough to do encrypted TLS 1.3 messaging quicker than most alternative servers can do even unencrypted, cleartext messaging. Furthermore, we partake in Google's OSS-Fuzz with a ~95% daily fuzzing coverage with no sanitizer issues. LGTM scores us flawless A+ from having zero CodeQL alerts and we compile with pedantic warning levels. µWebSockets is written entirely in C & C++ but has a seamless integration for Node.js backends. This allows for rapid scripting of powerful apps, using widespread competence. We've been fully standards compliant with a perfect Autobahn|Testsuite score since 2016. Companies with everything to lose rely on µWebSockets on a daily basis - we power the trading APIs of Bitfinex.com & Kraken.com, handling volumes of multiple billions of USD every day. Other companies include Trello, where µWebSockets is serving their 50 million users with real-time board updates. -
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UDP Warp+/WebSocket + CDN
Value Added Warp over WebSocket via CDN Tunnel
UDP Over SSL Tunnel UDP Over SSL Tunnel is a free SSL tool with SNI Host (Spoof Host) support ( SSL Injector ). Warp-over-WebSocket-CDN Bypass ISP throttling and DPI by tunneling Cloudflare Warp traffic over WebSocket with Host Header spoofing through major CDN networks (CloudFront / Cloudflare / Akamai). Platform Protocol Tunnel License What It Does Many ISPs throttle or block VPN traffic using Deep Packet Inspection (DPI). Warp-over-WebSocket-CDN wraps WireGuard UDP inside a WebSocket connection with a spoofed Host header, routing traffic through major CDN edge networks (CloudFront, Cloudflare, or Akamai). To any firewall or DPI system, the traffic looks like a legitimate WebSocket upgrade to a CDN-hosted domain. Result: Full Cloudflare Warp speed and privacy, even on heavily restricted networks — including campus, corporate, and ISP-level DPI systems. -
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A simple WebSocket server
A simple WebSocket server
A simple WebSocket server. -
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BeetleX
high performance dotnet core socket tcp communication components
High-performance dotnet core socket tcp communication components, support TLS, HTTP, HTTPS, WebSocket, RPC, Redis protocols, custom protocols and 1M connections problem solution. -
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DNWebSocket
WebSocket(RFC-6455) library written using Swift
Object-Oriented, Swift-style WebSocket Library (RFC 6455) for Swift-compatible Platforms. -
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FACIL.IO
Your high performance web application C framework
facil.io is an evented Network library written in C. facil.io provides high performance TCP/IP network services by using an evented design that was tested to provide an easy solution to the C10K problem. facil.io includes a mini-framework for Web Applications, with a fast HTTP / WebSocket server, integrated Pub/Sub, optional Redis connectivity, easy JSON handling, Mustache template rendering and more nifty tidbits. facil.io powers the HTTP/Websockets Ruby Iodine server and it can easily power your application as well. facil.io is easy to code with and aims at minimizing the developer's learning curve. In addition to detailed documentation and examples, the API is unified in style and the same types and API used for HTTP requests is used for JSON and Mustache rendering - so there's less to learn. facil.io should work on Linux / BSD / macOS (and possibly CYGWIN) and is continuously tested on both Linux and macOS.
