davyxu/cellnet

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4057 stars · 870 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

cellnet is a high-performance, componentized, extensible open-source network library for Go, supporting TCP, UDP, HTTP, and WebSocket transports with pluggable codecs (Protobuf, JSON, binary, ProtoPlus). It provides queue-based single/multi-threaded message processing models and synchronous/asynchronous RPC, widely used for game servers and device communication.

Use cases

• build a game server with custom binary protocols in Go
• implement RPC between backend microservices
• create a gateway server forwarding messages between clients and logic servers
• communicate with Unity3D clients using a private protocol
• build a TCP server with automatic reconnection and graceful restart
• exchange mixed-format messages (protobuf, JSON) over the same connection
• network communication between ARM/embedded devices

When to choose

• you need a flexible, extensible socket/RPC layer for game or real-time servers in Go
• you want mixed codec support (protobuf, JSON, custom binary) without changing code
• you need queue-based concurrency models (single-threaded async, per-connection goroutines, fully concurrent)
• you want a lightweight unified peer abstraction across TCP, UDP, WebSocket, and HTTP

When to avoid

• you need a production-grade full-featured HTTP server for large-scale web traffic (use gin or similar)
• you want a batteries-included game framework with entities, scenes, or matchmaking - cellnet is a networking layer only
• your project is not in Go

Facets

library · maturity stable

networking rpc serialization websocket http-server message-queue networking backend developer-tools go windows cross-platform tcp-server udp protobuf game-server event-queue codec socket game-development linux macos

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