Open-source websocket software
1177 open-source libraries, tools and applications tagged websocket, ranked by how closely websocket is their primary purpose, then by adoption and maintenance health. Each entry links to a page with sources, use cases and when to choose or avoid it.
1177 products, primary matches first, then adoption-weighted; health v2 shown.
| Product | Health v2 | Stars | Maturity |
|---|---|---|---|
| LeapJS LeapJS is the official JavaScript client library for the Leap Motion Controller, providing real-time hand and finger tracking data via a We… | 23 | 2008 | maintenance |
| AvengersWeChat/PadChat-SDK PadChat-SDK is a JavaScript SDK that communicates over WebSocket with a Windows-based WeChat iPad/Mac protocol service, enabling programmat… | 32 | 2006 | maintenance |
| nkzawa/socket.io-android-chat A simple Android chat demo application built with Java that connects to a Socket.IO chat server. It serves as an example of using native So… | 32 | 2000 | maintenance |
| Corvusoft/restbed Restbed is a C++ framework for building asynchronous RESTful server-side applications with secure, scalable HTTP communication. It supports… | 70 | 1998 | maintenance |
| spatie/dashboard.spatie.be The open-source code behind Spatie's realtime office wall dashboard, built as a full Laravel application with Vue and WebSockets. It displa… | 76 | 1955 | maintenance |
| brunosimon/keppler Keppler is a Node.js CLI tool that serves a project folder as a real-time code-sharing web app for lectures and presentations. Viewers open… | 32 | 1932 | maintenance |
| slowlydev/f1-dash A real-time Formula 1 dashboard web application showing live leaderboards, tire data, gaps, laps, and mini sectors. It is now sunset with a… | 82 | 1911 | maintenance |
| PearProject PearProject is a lightweight self-hosted online project and task collaboration system for remote teams, built with a Vue + Ant Design front… | 23 | 1849 | maintenance |
| schollz/hostyoself hostyoself is a service and Go CLI tool that lets you host files and websites directly from your browser, phone, or terminal via a public r… | 23 | 1848 | maintenance |
| danpaquin/coinbasepro-python An unofficial Python client (pip package cbpro) wrapping the Coinbase Pro (formerly GDAX) REST and WebSocket APIs for public and authentica… | 32 | 1843 | maintenance |
| walkor/workerman-todpole A multiplayer HTML5 tadpole swimming game server, a PHP port of the Ruby-based Rumpetroll, built on the Workerman framework with WebSocket … | 32 | 1837 | maintenance |
| matyhtf/webim A web-based instant messaging application built with PHP and Swoole4 coroutines, supporting single and group chat over WebSocket and HTTP C… | 32 | 1767 | maintenance |
| lance-gg/lance Lance is a Node.js-based real-time multiplayer game server with a companion client-side library that synchronizes game state between server… | 23 | 1721 | maintenance |
| websocket-rails/websocket-rails A Ruby gem that adds plug-and-play WebSocket support to Ruby on Rails applications, with an event router that maps client events to control… | 32 | 1714 | maintenance |
| crossbario/autobahn-testsuite A fully automated test suite for verifying WebSocket client and server implementations against RFC 6455 specification conformance and robus… | 77 | 1690 | maintenance |
| igrigorik/em-websocket em-websocket is an async WebSocket server library for Ruby built on EventMachine. It supports all WebSocket protocol drafts in use (75, 76,… | 32 | 1689 | maintenance |
| wingify/across-tabs AcrossTabs is a small (~4 KB gzipped) JavaScript library that enables safe communication between cross-origin browser tabs using the PostMe… | 32 | 1671 | maintenance |
| project-mirai/mirai-api-http A Mirai Console plugin that exposes the Mirai QQ bot framework over HTTP, WebSocket, reverse-WebSocket, and webhook adapters so any program… | 23 | 1665 | maintenance |
| vthibault/roBrowser roBrowser is a free, open-source web-based implementation of the Ragnarok Online MMORPG client, written from scratch in JavaScript using We… | 10 | 1658 | maintenance |
| Talk Talk is a Laravel package that adds a user-to-user conversation and chat system with realtime messaging to any Laravel application. It prov… | 23 | 1620 | maintenance |
| praeclarum/Ooui Ooui is a small cross-platform UI library for .NET that lets developers build web UIs using classic object-oriented C# code, with the brows… | 23 | 1619 | maintenance |
| websockets-rs/rust-websocket Rust-WebSocket is a Rust library implementing the WebSocket protocol (RFC6455) for both client and server connections, with message-level a… | 63 | 1612 | maintenance |
| inolen/quakejs QuakeJS is a port of ioquake3 (Quake 3 Arena) to JavaScript/WebAssembly via Emscripten, playable in the browser. It includes a Node.js web … | 52 | 1612 | maintenance |
| Kozea/wdb wdb is a browser-based Python debugger built on a client-server architecture using WebSockets, with the server implemented in Tornado. It p… | 32 | 1591 | maintenance |
| RelatedChat RelatedChat (formerly Messenger) is an open-source real-time chat messenger application for iOS, built in Swift with a Firebase backend. It… | 75 | 1589 | maintenance |
| Clivern/Beaver Beaver is a self-hosted real-time messaging server written in Go that provides WebSocket-based pub/sub messaging backed by Redis. It is use… | 67 | 1586 | maintenance |
| cjb/serverless-webrtc A tech demo of WebRTC peer-to-peer chat and file transfer with no signaling server, where users manually exchange offer/answer SDP. It ship… | 32 | 1565 | maintenance |
| mgechev/mk.js mk.js is a browser-based fighting game built with HTML5 canvas and JavaScript, inspired by Mortal Kombat. It supports single-player, local … | 32 | 1555 | maintenance |
| tidwall/SwiftWebSocket SwiftWebSocket is a high-performance WebSocket client library for iOS and macOS, fully conforming to RFC 6455 and passing all 521 Autobahn … | 10 | 1545 | maintenance |
| a2888409/face2face face2face is an asynchronous, non-blocking real-time instant messaging (IM) server built on Netty and Java NIO. It splits the system into t… | 32 | 1536 | maintenance |
| sqmax/springboot-project A backend for a WeChat official-account food ordering system built with Spring Boot and Spring Data JPA, exposing RESTful APIs consumed by … | 23 | 1520 | maintenance |
| nanomsg/mangos-v1 Mangos v1 is a pure Go implementation of the nanomsg Scalability Protocols (SP) messaging system, supporting Req/Rep, Pub/Sub, Pair, Bus, P… | 10 | 1519 | maintenance |
| squaremo/rabbit.js A Node.js library providing a simple, socket-oriented API for messaging via RabbitMQ, built on amqplib. It supports publish/subscribe, push… | 32 | 1514 | maintenance |
| kakserpom/phpdaemon phpDaemon is an asynchronous server-side framework for building high-load network applications in PHP, built on libevent. It bundles server… | 23 | 1512 | maintenance |
| tomusdrw/rust-web3 A Rust library implementing an Ethereum JSON-RPC client with multiple transports (HTTP, IPC, WebSockets), analogous to web3.js. It provides… | 55 | 1509 | maintenance |
| ideawu/icomet iComet is a high-concurrency comet/server-push messaging server written in C++ with libevent, designed to handle a million concurrent conne… | 32 | 1508 | maintenance |
| housleyjk/ws-rs WS-RS is a lightweight, event-driven WebSocket library for Rust implementing RFC 6455 on top of MIO. It handles multiple connections on a s… | 32 | 1495 | maintenance |
| veo/wsMemShell A Java-based WebSocket memory webshell (memshell) tool that injects WebSocket endpoints into running application servers like Tomcat, Sprin… | 32 | 1485 | maintenance |
| dathlin/ClientServerProject A C# client-server (C-S) framework template for small-to-medium systems, consisting of a server program, client programs (WinForm, WPF, ASP… | 23 | 1457 | maintenance |
| rxi/dyad Dyad.c is a lightweight, portable asynchronous networking library for C, distributed as just two source files. It supports building small T… | 10 | 1457 | maintenance |
| mopemope/meinheld Meinheld is a high-performance asynchronous WSGI web server for Python, built on the picoev event loop and greenlet. It can run standalone … | 32 | 1454 | maintenance |
| jkbrzt/cointrol Cointrol is a Bitcoin trading bot with a real-time dashboard for the Bitstamp exchange, built with Python (Django + Tornado) and a Backbone… | 32 | 1453 | maintenance |
| gottfrois/dashing-rails A Rails engine port of Shopify's Dashing dashboard framework for building real-time, widget-based dashboards in Ruby on Rails applications.… | 32 | 1447 | maintenance |
| ni-c/heimcontrol.js Heimcontrol.js is a self-hosted home automation application built with Node.js that runs on a Raspberry Pi. It provides a web interface for… | 10 | 1435 | maintenance |
| aliasaria/scrumblr Scrumblr is a web-based collaborative agile kanban board that simulates a physical sprint board with draggable cards and edit-in-place UI. … | 33 | 1431 | maintenance |
| ortuman/jackal Jackal is a free, open-source, high-performance XMPP (Jabber) instant messaging server written in Go. It emphasizes stability, simple confi… | 10 | 1429 | maintenance |
| jbyuki/instant.nvim instant.nvim is a collaborative editing plugin for Neovim written in Lua with no external dependencies. It supports single-buffer and sessi… | 32 | 1417 | maintenance |
| Open Ethereum Mining Pool An open-source Ethereum mining pool server written in Go that supports HTTP and Stratum mining protocols. It includes a built-in Ember.js s… | 10 | 1396 | maintenance |
| Mongrel2 Mongrel2 is a language- and architecture-agnostic web server written in C that decouples HTTP handling from application backends via a Zero… | 23 | 1358 | maintenance |
| mishk0/slack-bot-api A Node.js library that simplifies building Slack bots by wrapping the Slack Web API and Real Time Messaging (RTM) API. It provides promise-… | 23 | 1340 | maintenance |
| martynsmith/node-irc node-irc is an IRC client library for Node.js that lets you connect to IRC servers, join channels, and interact via an event-driven API. It… | 32 | 1319 | maintenance |
| jam-systems/jam Jam is an open source, self-hostable alternative to Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces for creating live audio rooms on the web. It supports pane… | 32 | 1317 | maintenance |
| pladaria/reconnecting-websocket A drop-in WebSocket client library that automatically reconnects when the connection closes, with a fully WebSocket-API-compatible interfac… | 23 | 1314 | maintenance |
| stephenmcd/django-socketio A BSD-licensed Django application that integrates Socket.IO and WebSockets into Django projects via gevent-socketio. It provides a channel … | 32 | 1311 | maintenance |
| observing/thor Thor is a Node.js CLI tool for benchmarking and load testing WebSocket servers. It generates large numbers of persistent WebSocket connecti… | 32 | 1302 | maintenance |
| bestony/neshouse NESHouse is an open source, NES-style (retro 8-bit) implementation of Clubhouse for hosting live audio chat rooms. It is a front-end applic… | 32 | 1286 | maintenance |
| scrapinghub/slackbot A Python library for building chat bots for Slack, based on the Slack Real Time Messaging API. It provides a simple plugin mechanism, concu… | 32 | 1280 | maintenance |
| walkor/workerman-chat A high-performance websocket chat room application built on PHP's workerman GatewayWorker framework, supporting distributed multi-server de… | 32 | 1209 | maintenance |
| iyear/pure-live-core A self-hosted Go server and CLI that provides a clean livestream viewing experience for platforms like Bilibili, Douyu, Huya, and Twitch, s… | 23 | 1209 | maintenance |
| bradtraversy/chatcord ChatCord is a realtime chat application with rooms built using Node.js, Express, and Socket.io on the backend with vanilla JavaScript on th… | 32 | 1206 | maintenance |
| rsms/gotalk Gotalk is a Go library and wire protocol for bidirectional, concurrent peer-to-peer communication over any byte stream, with first-class We… | 23 | 1205 | maintenance |
| abourget/gevent-socketio gevent-socketio is a Python implementation of the Socket.IO protocol built on gevent and gevent-websocket, enabling real-time bidirectional… | 32 | 1204 | maintenance |
| dotNetify DotNetify is an open-source framework for building real-time, reactive web apps with a C# .NET back-end and React, Vue, Knockout, Blazor, o… | 34 | 1199 | maintenance |
| denoland/celld celld is a self-hosted daemon that runs Cloudflare Workers and Durable Objects on your own machines, with each object backed by its own SQL… | 86 | 5443 | experimental |
| eclipse-paho/paho.mqtt.javascript Eclipse Paho JavaScript client is a browser-based MQTT client library that connects to MQTT brokers over WebSockets. It is part of the Ecli… | 23 | 1184 | maintenance |
| fanchangyong/deershare DeerShare (小鹿快传) is a web-based P2P file transfer tool that uses WebRTC for direct peer-to-peer connections with WebSocket signaling. It le… | 32 | 1177 | maintenance |
| floatinghotpot/casino-server An open-source online poker game server built on Node.js, Redis, and Socket.IO, supporting Texas Holdem and Jinhua with a WebSocket client … | 32 | 1170 | maintenance |
| kyle8998/Vynchronize Vynchronize is a real-time video synchronization web application that lets friends watch online videos together in shared rooms. It uses So… | 23 | 1158 | maintenance |
| Lawouach/WebSocket-for-Python ws4py is a Python library implementing the WebSocket protocol (RFC 6455) for both clients and servers, supporting Python 2, 3, and PyPy. It… | 67 | 1128 | maintenance |
| cloudflare/workers-chat-demo A demo real-time chat application built on Cloudflare Workers using Durable Objects, with one object per chat room coordinating WebSocket c… | 64 | 1122 | maintenance |
| luofei614/SocketLog SocketLog is a probe-style server-side debugging tool for PHP that pushes runtime debug information (errors, SQL statements, performance me… | 32 | 1118 | maintenance |
| matrix-org/matrix-react-sdk matrix-react-sdk is a React-based SDK providing components to build Matrix chat and VoIP web clients. It was developed from 2015 to 2024 by… | 10 | 1110 | maintenance |
| ionorg/ion-sfu Ion SFU is a pure Go implementation of a WebRTC Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU) that routes audio, video, and datachannel streams to scale … | 23 | 1102 | maintenance |
| 131/h264-live-player A JavaScript library that plays live H.264 video streams in the browser by wrapping the Broadway WebGL-accelerated decoder, with NAL units … | 32 | 1097 | maintenance |
| Kaldi GStreamer Server A real-time full-duplex speech recognition server built on the Kaldi toolkit and GStreamer framework, implemented in Python. It streams aud… | 32 | 1095 | maintenance |
| nginx-clojure/nginx-clojure An Nginx module that embeds Clojure, Java, or Groovy programs directly inside Nginx, typically running Ring-based HTTP handlers. It support… | 65 | 1084 | maintenance |
| Apache Guacamole Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway that lets users access RDP, VNC, and SSH sessions through a standard web browser us… | 10 | 1078 | maintenance |
| aurora-opensource/xviz XVIZ is a protocol and JavaScript tooling suite for real-time transfer and visualization of autonomy data, with modules for building, parsi… | 23 | 1075 | maintenance |
| threema-ch/threema-web Threema Web is the official browser-based web client for Threema, a privacy-focused end-to-end encrypted mobile messenger. It mirrors the m… | 89 | 1069 | maintenance |
| gfodor/p2pcf P2PCF is a JavaScript library that provides low-cost, serverless WebRTC signalling using a Cloudflare Worker and R2 bucket. It offers room-… | 23 | 1064 | maintenance |
| coderMyy/CocoaAsyncSocket_Demo An iOS instant messaging demo built on CocoaAsyncSocket (TCP), covering connection, message send/receive, heartbeat, reconnection, message … | 32 | 1059 | maintenance |
| erjadi/kubecraftadmin KubeCraftAdmin is a Go application that lets you administer a Kubernetes cluster from inside Minecraft Bedrock Edition via a WebSocket serv… | 32 | 1053 | maintenance |
| ProjectRTC AndroidRTC is an Android client for ProjectRTC, a WebRTC demo server, enabling video calls between Android devices and desktop browsers. It… | 32 | 1051 | maintenance |
| toblum/McLighting McLighting is an ESP8266-based firmware for controlling WS2811/WS2812 LED strips over the internet. It provides a web interface, REST API, … | 10 | 1048 | maintenance |
| Open Home Foundation Matter Server A certified Matter controller server exposing a WebSocket API built on the official Matter (CHIP) SDK, originally created to power Home Ass… | 10 | 1046 | maintenance |
| Node Open Mining Portal NOMP (Node Open Mining Portal) is an all-in-one cryptocurrency mining pool server and portal written in Node.js, bundling a stratum pool se… | 32 | 1044 | maintenance |
| socketio/socket.io-p2p A JavaScript library that sets up WebRTC peer-to-peer connections between browsers using the Socket.IO event protocol, with Socket.IO handl… | 32 | 1035 | maintenance |
| owenliang/go-push A Go-based scalable message push server prototype designed for tens of millions of concurrent connections, split into a stateless logic ser… | 32 | 1029 | maintenance |
| Botfront A feature-rich chat widget for embedding Rasa or Botfront virtual assistants on any website, usable via a script tag or as a React componen… | 49 | 1020 | maintenance |
| joewalnes/web-vmstats A small web application that streams live Linux vmstat system metrics (CPU, memory, IO) over WebSockets and renders them as real-time chart… | 32 | 1005 | maintenance |
| gotthardp/lorawan-server An open-source LoRaWAN server written in Erlang that combines network-server and application-server functionality for private LoRaWAN netwo… | 23 | 1005 | maintenance |
| joschan21/nextjs-realtime-chat FriendZone is a full-stack realtime messaging chat application built with Next.js 13 and TypeScript. It supports realtime messaging, friend… | 31 | 999 | maintenance |
| DamageLabs/kandan Kandan is a self-hosted, open-source team chat application revived as a modern alternative to HipChat, built with Angular and an Express/Ty… | 62 | 2685 | experimental |
| Stream Chat The official Android SDK for Stream Chat, providing a low-level chat client plus reusable UI components and Jetpack Compose messaging UI fo… | 95 | 210 | stable |
| team9ai/team9 Team9 is a collaborative workspace application where AI agents live alongside human teammates in channels, threads, and shared docs, built … | 71 | 1979 | experimental |
| galaxy-s10/billd-live Billd-Live is a self-hosted live streaming platform built with Vue3, WebRTC, Node.js (Koa2), SRS, and FFmpeg, similar to Bilibili's web liv… | 63 | 1736 | experimental |
| Sharkord/sharkord Sharkord is a lightweight, self-hosted real-time communication platform offering voice, video, text chat, and screen sharing, built with Ty… | 84 | 1529 | experimental |
| i365dev/free4chat Free4Chat is a web application for opening temporary real-time rooms with voice chat, text chat, screen sharing, and browser-to-browser fil… | 95 | 1221 | experimental |
| kettle11/tangle Tangle is a TypeScript library that wraps WebAssembly modules to make building multiplayer apps and games easy, handling message passing, s… | 32 | 1207 | experimental |
| aquametalabs/aquameta Aquameta is an experimental web development platform built entirely inside PostgreSQL, where schemas, REST endpoints, WebSocket events, ver… | 35 | 1098 | experimental |