# Clivern/Beaver

💨 A real time messaging system to build a scalable in-app notifications, multiplayer games, chat apps in web and mobile apps.

Repository: https://github.com/Clivern/Beaver
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/beaver
Homepage: https://clivern.github.io/Beaver/
Language: Go
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: pusher, beaver, websocket, pubsub, socket-io, realtime, messaging, messaging-service, socketjs, hacktoberfest
Last push: 2026-08-25T21:03:14+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 67/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2874, "days_push": 8, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1581, forks 84 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:07.090638+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: service
- maturity: maintenance
- function: websocket, message-queue, http-server, api-framework, monitoring
- domain: web-development, backend, apis
- platform: go, self-hosted
- tags: pubsub, pusher-alternative, realtime-messaging, in-app-notifications, chat-apps, redis, real-time, messaging, linux, docker, web-server

## Member repositories
- Clivern/Beaver (main) score 67

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:07.090638+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:56:20.757218+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/Clivern/Beaver (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:07.090638+00:00, sha 46164d1a1424)
  - homepage: https://clivern.github.io/Beaver/ (fetched 2026-08-29T11:26:35.843252+00:00, sha c1f9f164edaa)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.