# NetEase/pomelo

A fast,scalable,distributed game server framework for Node.js.

Repository: https://github.com/NetEase/pomelo
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pomelo
Homepage: http://pomelo.netease.com
Language: JavaScript
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-08-10T09:22:21+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5096, "days_push": 1119, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 11867, forks 2860 (observed 2026-08-28T04:10:50.346027+00:00)

## What it is
Pomelo is a fast, scalable, distributed game server framework for Node.js with a multi-process architecture and plugin-based extensibility. It also suits real-time web applications like chat and message push, and ships with libraries, tools, and client SDKs.

## Use cases
- build a multiplayer game server in node.js
- create an MMO RPG backend
- build a realtime chat application
- implement message push services
- scale a realtime web app across multiple processes
- develop a mobile or social game backend

## When to choose
- you need a distributed, multi-process game server on Node.js
- you want a realtime server framework with simple request/response/broadcast APIs
- you need client SDKs for web, mobile, or cocos2d-x
- you prefer convention-over-configuration with a plugin architecture

## When to avoid
- you need a modern, actively developed framework with current Node.js support
- your project is a simple REST API better served by a web framework
- you require non-JavaScript server-side performance
- you want long-term community support given sparse recent activity

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: maintenance
- function: web-framework, websocket, rpc, middleware, plugin-system, cli
- domain: web-development, backend, microservices
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: game-server, realtime, multi-process, mmo, chat-server, scalable, game-development, real-time, nodejs

## Member repositories
- NetEase/pomelo (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:50.346027+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 2026-08-29T17:15:15.126944+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/NetEase/pomelo (fetched 2026-08-28T04:10:50.346027+00:00, sha 33c489522780)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/pomelo (fetched 2026-08-29T08:13:22.450604+00:00, sha 782e8f6f7d3b)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.