faye

Faye

Faye is a set of tools for simple publish-subscribe messaging between web clients. It ships with easy-to-use message routing servers for Node.js and Rack applications, and clients that can be used on the server and in the browser.

• Documentation: http://faye.jcoglan.com
• Mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/faye-users
• Bug tracker: http://github.com/faye/faye/issues
• Source code: http://github.com/faye/faye

Changelog

1.4.1 / 2025-06-17

• Remove binding to the deprecated unload event

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