node-pinus/pinus

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1929 stars · 391 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

Pinus is a fast, scalable, distributed game server framework for Node.js written in TypeScript, based on the Pomelo architecture with callbacks converted to Promises. It provides a multi-process distributed architecture, RPC, client libraries for many platforms, and tooling for building multiplayer games and real-time applications.

Use cases

• build a multiplayer game backend for web or mobile
• create a distributed real-time chat or message push server
• scale a game server horizontally across multiple processes
• migrate a pomelo project to TypeScript with promise-based APIs
• build an MMO RPG demo server with websocket clients
• develop a real-time application server with broadcast and request-response messaging

When to choose

• you need a battle-tested distributed game server framework on Node.js
• you want TypeScript with promise-based APIs and pomelo protocol compatibility
• you are building multiplayer games or real-time apps needing horizontal scaling
• you need multi-client support including JavaScript, Android, iOS, and Cocos2d-x

When to avoid

• you are building a simple REST API or traditional web application
• your team has no experience with pomelo-style multi-process architectures
• you need a framework with a large active ecosystem beyond the original pomelo community
• you require non-websocket transport protocols out of the box

Facets

framework · maturity active

web-framework websocket rpc middleware plugin-system cli backend microservices web-development cross-platform windows game-server typescript pomelo multiplayer realtime distributed-architecture game-development real-time nodejs macos linux

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