Real-time
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Enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication.

µWebSockets17.6K

Highly scalable WebSocket server & client library.

MQTT.js8.7K

Client for MQTT - Pub-sub based messaging protocol for use on top of TCP/IP.

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Scalable HTTP + WebSocket engine which can run on multiple CPU cores.

Primus4.5K

An abstraction layer for real-time frameworks to prevent module lock-in.

Faye4.4K

Real-time client-server message bus, based on Bayeux protocol.

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Barebone MQTT server that can run on any stream server.

rpc-websockets595

JSON-RPC 2.0 implementation over WebSockets.

deepstream.io298

Scalable real-time microservice framework.

Kalm211

Low-level socket router and middleware framework.