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Websockets projects on GitHub

Plural variant of the WebSocket real-time protocol topic.

As of , the most-starred Websockets projects on GitHub are supabase (111.7K stars), nest (76.9K stars) and socket.io (63.2K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 25 Websockets repositories with 653.8K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was supabase, with +49 stars in a day.

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653.8KStars in total
+132Stars in a day
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Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+49

supabase

supabase/supabase · ★ 111.7K

Supabase is an open source Postgres development platform that gives you a hosted Postgres database plus auth, auto-generated APIs, realtime subscriptions, storage, and edge functions, built as an open source alternative to Firebase.

+11

k6

grafana/k6 · ★ 32K

k6 is a modern load-testing tool: you write test scripts that simulate real user traffic against your application to see how it performs. It is built for developers and testers in the DevOps era — like unit testing, but for performance.

+10

Baileys

WhiskeySockets/Baileys · ★ 11.4K

Baileys is an open-source TypeScript/JavaScript library that lets your code talk to WhatsApp directly: it connects over WebSockets to the WhatsApp Web API, so you can read and send messages programmatically without the official Business API.

+8

starlette

Kludex/starlette · ★ 12.7K

Starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework and toolkit for building async web services in Python - small, production-ready, and with few hard dependencies.

The all-time top

25 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · supabase/supabase

    supabase

    Supabase is an open source Postgres development platform that gives you a hosted Postgres database plus auth, auto-generated APIs, realtime subscriptions, storage, and edge functions, built as an open source alternative to Firebase.

    111.7K
  2. #2 · nestjs/nest

    nest

    Nest is a progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable, enterprise-grade server-side applications using TypeScript (while staying compatible with plain JavaScript).

    76.9K
  3. #3 · socketio/socket.io

    socket.io

    Socket.IO is a library that enables bidirectional, low-latency, real-time communication between a Node.js server and clients such as browsers or mobile apps.

    63.2K
  1. 4

    okhttp

    47.1Klysine-dev/okhttp · Kotlin

    OkHttp is an efficient HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM, handling HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, websockets, and SSE with connection pooling and transparent GZIP.

  2. 5

    insomnia

    40KKong/insomnia · TypeScript

    Insomnia is an open-source, cross-platform API client for debugging, designing, testing and mocking APIs over GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC.

  3. 6

    k6

    32Kgrafana/k6 · Go

    k6 is a modern load-testing tool: you write test scripts that simulate real user traffic against your application to see how it performs. It is built for developers and testers in the DevOps era — like unit testing, but for performance.

  4. 7

    websocket

    24.9Kgorilla/websocket · Go

    A Go implementation of the WebSocket protocol — a fast, well-tested and widely used Go package for WebSocket client-server communication.

  5. 8

    actix-web

    24.9Kactix/actix-web · Rust

    Actix Web is a powerful, pragmatic and extremely fast web framework for Rust, used to build web servers, APIs and realtime services.

  6. 9

    tornado

    22.2Ktornadoweb/tornado · Python

    Tornado is a Python web framework and asynchronous networking library, originally developed at FriendFeed. Thanks to non-blocking network I/O it can scale to tens of thousands of open connections.

  7. 10

    snapdrop

    19.7KSnapDrop/snapdrop · JavaScript

    Local file sharing in the browser, inspired by Apple's AirDrop: open the page on two devices in the same network and send files between them.

  8. 11

    uWebSockets

    19KuNetworking/uWebSockets · C++

    μWebSockets is a simple, secure and standards-compliant web server for demanding applications, built as a C++ library — so optimized for speed and memory that its TLS 1.3 encrypted messaging outruns most servers' cleartext.

  9. 12

    websocketd

    17.5Kjoewalnes/websocketd · Go

    websocketd is a small command-line tool that wraps an existing command-line program and exposes it as a WebSocket server — like inetd, but for WebSockets. Any script that reads STDIN and writes STDOUT becomes a live, browser-reachable endpoint.

  10. 13

    aiohttp

    16.6Kaio-libs/aiohttp · Python

    aiohttp is an asynchronous HTTP client and server framework built on asyncio: one Python package for making HTTP requests and for building web applications, with WebSockets supported out of the box.

  11. 14

    feathers

    15.3Kfeathersjs/feathers · TypeScript

    Feathers is a full-stack framework for building web APIs and real-time applications with TypeScript or JavaScript, working with any backend technology and any frontend like React, Vue, Angular or React Native.

  12. 15

    NodeBB

    15.2KNodeBB/NodeBB · JavaScript

    NodeBB is forum/bulletin-board software built on Node.js, with real-time discussions, mobile-responsive design, and RESTful read/write APIs on top of classic forum concepts like categories and user accounts.

  13. 16

    noVNC

    14.1Knovnc/noVNC · JavaScript

    noVNC is an HTML5 VNC client that lets you connect to and control a remote desktop straight from a web browser, with no plugins needed. It powers browser-based remote access in projects like OpenStack, OpenNebula and ThinLinc.

  14. 17

    InsForge

    13.1KInsForge/InsForge · TypeScript

    InsForge is an all-in-one, open-source backend platform built for coding agents: it gives agents database, auth, storage, compute, hosting, and an AI gateway so they can ship full-stack apps end-to-end without a human wiring up the backend.

  15. 18

    starlette

    12.7KKludex/starlette · Python

    Starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework and toolkit for building async web services in Python - small, production-ready, and with few hard dependencies.

  16. 19

    ttyd

    12.5Ktsl0922/ttyd · C

    ttyd is a command-line tool that shares your terminal over the web, letting you access and interact with a terminal session through a browser.

  17. 20

    PairDrop

    11.6Kschlagmichdoch/PairDrop · JavaScript

    PairDrop is a web app for transferring files and text between devices on the same local network, inspired by Apple AirDrop and built as a fork of Snapdrop. It also supports pairing devices and joining temporary public rooms to transfer over the Internet.

  18. 21

    Baileys

    11.4KWhiskeySockets/Baileys · JavaScript

    Baileys is an open-source TypeScript/JavaScript library that lets your code talk to WhatsApp directly: it connects over WebSockets to the WhatsApp Web API, so you can read and send messages programmatically without the official Business API.

  19. 22

    uvicorn

    11KKludex/uvicorn · Python

    Uvicorn is an ASGI web server for Python — an async server for running Python web apps and APIs, supporting HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and WebSockets.

  20. 23

    centrifugo

    10.9Kcentrifugal/centrifugo · Go

    Centrifugo is an open-source, language-agnostic real-time messaging server that lets any backend push messages to connected clients over WebSocket, HTTP-streaming, SSE, GRPC or WebTransport. It acts as a self-hosted alternative to Pubnub, Pusher, Ably, Socket.IO, Phoenix.PubSub and SignalR.

  21. 24

    gdbgui

    10.4Kcs01/gdbgui · TypeScript

    It's a graphical frontend for gdb (the GNU debugger): instead of typing commands, you add breakpoints, view the call stack, and visualize data structures in a browser UI.

  22. 25

    back4app-vless

    210KJGX66F/back4app-vless · Shell

    This project is a one-click deployment setup that runs a VLESS-over-WebSocket proxy through a Cloudflare Tunnel, hosted for free on Back4app's cloud platform, with no VPS or server management required.

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