bestws

BestWS

The best WebSocket library for fast, small send size, binary protocols.
Long gone is Socket.io's slow and stringified packets.

Time to use small and fast binary protocols

Quick server-client example

const bws = require("bestws");

const server = new bws.Server(bws.new.HTTP(3000));

server.on("initialize", (ws, res, init, req) => {
    console.log("Initial data received: ", init);
    res(["I", { got: "the" }, "message", 1111, [",", "you", { may: "connect" }, true]]);

    ws.on("message", (data) => {
        console.log("Got data from client: ", data);
        ws.send("Hello!");
    });
});

server.on("listening", () => {
    console.log("Listening.");
    const client = new bws.Client("ws://localhost:3000", [1, { a: "Init request data" }, 2]);
    client.on("initializing", () => console.log("Client connecting..."));
    client.on("open", (init) => {
        console.log("Server sent their own initial data: ", init);
        client.send("Hi!");
    });
    client.on("message", (data) => {
        console.log("Got data from server: ", data);
    });
});

Warning

I didn't make the above work with browsers, NodeJS only.

However,

Where this library shines if the encoding functionality which I haven't made in browser either, kinda too lazy for that. Have fun.