socket.io-client
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Please see the documentation here.
The source code of the website can be found here. Contributions are welcome!
In order to see all the client debug output, run the following command on the browser console – including the desired scope – and reload your app page:
localStorage.debug = '*';
And then, filter by the scopes you're interested in. See also: https://socket.io/docs/v4/logging-and-debugging/
The 'ws' package is a simple to use, blazing fast, and thoroughly tested WebSocket client and server implementation. Unlike socket.io-client, which provides an abstraction over WebSocket with additional features like auto-reconnection, 'ws' is a bare WebSocket implementation.
Faye is a set of tools for simple publish-subscribe messaging between web clients. It's similar to socket.io-client in that it provides an abstraction over WebSocket for real-time communication, but it has a different API and feature set.
SockJS-client is a browser JavaScript library that provides a WebSocket-like object. SockJS gives you a coherent, cross-browser, Javascript API which creates a low latency, full duplex, cross-domain communication channel between the browser and the web server, with WebSockets or without. It is similar to socket.io-client but focuses more on providing fallback options for environments where WebSocket is not available.
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The npm package socket.io-client receives a total of 3,892,010 weekly downloads. As such, socket.io-client popularity was classified as popular.
We found that socket.io-client demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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