Socket.IO
Bidirectional real-time communication
★ 4.6
The original WebSocket library for Node.js. Bidirectional event-based communication with automatic fallbacks. Self-hosted with millions of downloads.
Fonctionnalités
✓ WebSocket with fallbacks
✓ Rooms and namespaces
✓ Broadcasting
✓ Binary streaming
✓ Automatic reconnection
✓ Multiplexing
✓ TypeScript support
✓ Redis adapter for scaling
Avantages
- + Most popular choice
- + Completely free
- + Full control
- + Great documentation
- + Huge community
Inconvénients
- − Requires self-hosting
- − Scaling is your responsibility
- − No built-in persistence
- − Infrastructure management