olahol/melody

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4083 stars · 371 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

Melody is a minimalist websocket framework for Go built on top of gorilla/websocket. It abstracts away tedious websocket handling with a simple net/http-like interface, session management, broadcasting, and automatic ping/pong heartbeats.

Use cases

• build a websocket chat server in Go
• broadcast messages to all connected websocket clients
• handle websocket sessions with per-session data
• add real-time features to a Go web app
• automatically detect and drop broken websocket connections
• send messages to selected websocket sessions only

When to choose

• you want a simple, high-level websocket API in Go without managing gorilla/websocket details
• you need safe concurrent writes and broadcasting out of the box
• you want automatic heartbeat/timeout handling for dead connections
• your app fits the net/http handler style

When to avoid

• you need fine-grained control over websocket frames, compression, or subprotocols
• you need a full-featured realtime platform with rooms, reconnection, or fallbacks like Socket.IO
• you are not using Go
• you need client-side websocket support only

Facets

library · maturity stable

websocket middleware http-server web-development backend go windows cross-platform websocket-framework broadcast sessions gorilla-websocket realtime minimalist real-time linux macos

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