faye-websocket-node

Standards-compliant WebSocket client and server

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Standards-compliant WebSocket client and server

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Jul 2015	2015-07-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1
Aug 2015	2015-08-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Sep 2015	2015-09-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Oct 2015	2015-10-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Nov 2015	2015-11-01 00:00:00 UTC	2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Dec 2015	2015-12-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jan 2016	2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Feb 2016	2016-02-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Mar 2016	2016-03-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
Apr 2016	2016-04-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	0	0
May 2016	2016-05-01 00:00:00 UTC	2016-06-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	1

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throwaway2016a·May 20, 2016

Not sure it it helps but it looks like it uses Faye-Websockets https://github.com/faye/faye-websocket-node I don't know enough about the inner workings to be able to tell if it's compatible. Any Speeding up of meteor would be HUGE news.

In uWebSockets: Scalable WebSocket server library for Node.js and C++11

leggetter·Jul 15, 2015

SockJS is definitely a reasonable choice as a base. At Pusher we use a fork of SockJS for HTTP fallback but we actually use em-websocket [1] (ruby) for our WebSocket API. Given the opportunity we'd probably move away from SockJS to something much simpler because we only want the HTTP fallback part and it only handles < 8% of our connections. If you _only_ want WebSocket connections with no HTTP fallback then Faye WebSocket [2] may be an option. But any production application is going to require fallback for older browsers and pesky proxies/firewalls. Faye [3] is solid (obviously used Faye WebSocket), has implementations in Node and Ruby, but is a PubSub solution. I'd kinda argue that any real-time app needs at least PubSub functionality anyway. The ws Node module [4] is apparently "The fastest RFC-6455 WebSocket implementation for Node.js

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" and receives contributions from 3rd-Eden who is also behind Primus [5]. But it's also WebSocket with no fallback. I haven't used Primus, but I really like the idea of offering a layer above the underlying connection engine. I've seen contributions to Socket.IO dip in the past (prior to CloudUp being acquired by Automattic), but Socket.IO is used by so many apps that somebody is always likely to maintain it for the foreseeable future. I'm generally in favour of adding abstractions around layers like this (connectivity, DBs, Message Queues, Hosted Services etc.). However, in this case you're then adding a dependency on Primus. Isn't software fun! [1] https://github.com/igrigorik/em-websocket [2] https://github.com/faye/faye-websocket-node [3] http://faye.jcoglan.com/ [4] https://github.com/websockets/ws [5] https://github.com/primus/primus

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