Cysharp/MagicOnion

Health v2 · maintenance only

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4452 stars · 461 forks observed · 2026-10-11

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

MagicOnion is a unified RPC and real-time communication framework for .NET and Unity, built on gRPC and MessagePack. It uses C# interfaces as protocol schemas instead of .proto files, supporting both API services and bi-directional StreamingHub real-time communication.

Use cases

• build rpc services between .net microservices
• realtime multiplayer game server communication with unity
• replace wcf with a modern rpc framework
• bidirectional streaming like signalr or socket.io in c#
• share api contracts between c# client and server without proto files
• broadcast server data to multiple game clients

When to choose

• your entire stack is C#/.NET or Unity and you want schema-free code sharing
• you need both REST-like APIs and real-time streaming in one framework
• you're building Unity multiplayer games needing efficient binary transport

When to avoid

• you need cross-language clients (JavaScript, Python, etc.) since schemas are C# interfaces
• you already have .proto-based gRPC infrastructure
• you need plain HTTP/JSON APIs for third-party consumers

Facets

framework · maturity active

rpc websocket serialization api-framework http-server backend apis microservices dotnet game-engine cross-platform windows grpc messagepack streaminghub realtime-communication unity c-sharp code-first-schema game-development real-time macos android ios

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