10 alternatives to ws

websockets/ws — Simple to use, blazing fast and thoroughly tested WebSocket client and server for Node.js (22,810 stars, MIT, realtime).

These are the closest projects in the JustClaw-It index that we serve licence-cleared code from, ranked by relevance and by our code-quality score (1–10, the mean over each repo's graded components: completeness, code quality, deployability, reusability, strategic value). JustClaw-It also serves 17 licence-cleared components from websockets/ws itself.

The alternatives in detail

• gobwas/ws
  A tiny WebSocket library for Go.
  score 4.9/10 · MIT permissive · 6,469 stars · 34 components · search them
• python-websockets/websockets
  Library for building WebSocket servers and clients in Python
  score 4.7/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 5,739 stars · 67 components · search them
• sockjs/sockjs-client
  WebSocket emulation - Javascript client
  score 4.5/10 · MIT permissive · 8,506 stars · 45 components · search them
• coder/websocket
  WebSocket implementation for fasthttp.
  score 4.5/10 · ISC permissive · 599 stars · 51 components · search them
• h3js/crossws
  🔌 Cross-platform WebSocket Servers for Node.js, Deno, Bun and Cloudflare Workers.
  score 4.7/10 · MIT permissive · 740 stars · 54 components · search them
• nats-io/nats.js
  JavaScript client for Node.js, Bun, Deno and browser for NATS, the cloud native messaging system
  score 4.6/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 447 stars · 160 components · search them
• kerryjiang/supersocket
  SuperSocket is a high-performance, extensible socket server application framework for .NET. It provides a robust architecture for building custom network communication applications with support for multiple protocols inc
  score 4.5/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 4,239 stars · 269 components · search them
• lawouach/websocket-for-python
  WebSocket client and server library for Python 2 and 3 as well as PyPy (ws4py 0.5.1)
  score 4.9/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 1,128 stars · 19 components · search them
• lxzan/gws
  simple, fast, reliable websocket server & client, supports running over tcp/kcp/unix domain socket. keywords: ws, proxy, chat, go, golang...
  score 4.9/10 · Apache-2.0 permissive · 1,808 stars · 20 components · search them
• ithewei/libhv
  🔥 比libevent/libuv/asio更易用的网络库。A c/c++ network library for developing TCP/UDP/SSL/HTTP/WebSocket/MQTT/Redis client/server.
  score 4.7/10 · BSD-3-Clause permissive · 7,568 stars · 293 components · search them

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