Clivern/Beaver

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

1581 stars · 84 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Beaver is a self-hosted real-time messaging server written in Go that provides WebSocket-based pub/sub messaging backed by Redis. It is used to build scalable in-app notifications, chat applications, multiplayer games, realtime graphs, and geotracking features in web and mobile apps.

Use cases

• self-host a pusher alternative for realtime messaging
• add in-app notifications to a web app
• build a chat application with websockets
• power multiplayer game messaging
• stream realtime metrics or graphs to a dashboard
• track locations in realtime with geotracking

When to choose

• you want a self-hosted, open-source alternative to Pusher or Socket.IO services
• you need a lightweight Go server with Redis-backed pub/sub for realtime features
• you want Prometheus metrics and simple binary deployment for a messaging backend

When to avoid

• you need a fully managed realtime service with global edge infrastructure
• you prefer a JavaScript/Node.js ecosystem like Socket.IO with client libraries everywhere
• you need advanced features like message persistence or guaranteed delivery out of the box

Facets

service · maturity maintenance

websocket message-queue http-server api-framework monitoring web-development backend apis go self-hosted pubsub pusher-alternative realtime-messaging in-app-notifications chat-apps redis real-time messaging linux docker web-server

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