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Open Source Packages

Libraries, frameworks, tools, and SDKs used by the apps in this directory — scored the same way as the apps themselves.

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83Health
Library npm

ws

A simple, blazing-fast, thoroughly tested WebSocket client and server library for Node.js.

22,804
MIT
Used by 116
95Health
Library npm

Socket.IO

Bidirectional, low-latency, event-based realtime communication for Node.js and the browser.

63,200
MIT
Used by 39
51Health
Library Go

websocket

A fast, RFC 6455-compliant WebSocket implementation for Go with full control over framing, compression, and concurrency.

24,870
Other
Used by 39
96Health
SDK npm

@slack/web-api

Slack's official Node.js HTTP client for calling any of the 270+ Web API methods, with built-in queuing, retries, pagination, and rate-limit handling.

3,378
MIT
Used by 38
90Health
Library PyPI

websockets

Build correct, fast WebSocket servers and clients in Python with asyncio, threading, or Sans-I/O APIs.

5,717
BSD 3
Used by 29
56Health
Library Cargo

tokio-tungstenite

Asynchronous, Tokio-native WebSocket streams built on tungstenite

2,507
MIT
Used by 25
84Health
Library npm

http-proxy-middleware

The one-liner Node.js proxy middleware for connect, express, next.js, hono, and more.

11,126
MIT
Used by 20
91Health
Framework Go

Echo

A minimalist, high-performance Go web framework with a radix-tree router, built-in middleware chain, and first-class HTTP/2 support.

32,705
MIT
Used by 13
96Health
SDK PyPI

Slack SDK for Python

The official Python SDK for building apps, bots, and integrations on the Slack Platform.

4,012
MIT
Used by 13
57Health
Library npm

Socket.IO Redis Adapter

Scale Socket.IO across multiple server instances by broadcasting events through Redis

2,767
MIT
Used by 12
70Health
Library npm

partysocket

A drop-in, auto-reconnecting WebSocket client with message buffering and React hooks

1,263
MIT
Used by 10
70Health
Library PyPI

websocket-client

A low-level, dependency-free WebSocket client for Python supporting both synchronous and event-driven connections.

3,707
Apache 2.0
Used by 9
79Health
Library PyPI

python-socketio

Python implementation of the Socket.IO realtime protocol for both servers and clients.

4,369
MIT
Used by 8
72Health
Library npm

@fastify/websocket

Adds first-class WebSocket route support to Fastify, dispatching every upgrade through Fastify's own hooks and router instead of bolting ws on beside it.

468
MIT
Used by 7
61Health
Library npm

bufferutil

Native buffer masking and unmasking utilities that make the ws WebSocket library fast.

171
MIT
Used by 7
52Health
Library Go

websocket

Minimal, idiomatic Go WebSocket library with full context.Context support, zero dependencies, and Wasm compatibility.

5,467
Other
Used by 6
52Health
Library Cargo

tungstenite

A lightweight, stream-based WebSocket protocol implementation for Rust, runtime-agnostic by design

2,388
Other
Used by 6
47Health
Library Go

ws

A zero-allocation Go library for building fast, low-level RFC 6455 WebSocket servers and clients.

6,466
MIT
Used by 4
75Health
Library npm

sockjs-client

Browser WebSocket emulation library that automatically falls back across streaming and polling transports for reliable realtime connections.

8,506
MIT
Used by 3
46Health
Library npm

stompjs

A JavaScript and TypeScript STOMP client for connecting browsers and Node.js apps to WebSocket message brokers.

888
Apache 2.0
Used by 3
80Health
Library PyPI

python-engineio

Python implementation of the Engine.IO realtime transport protocol powering Socket.IO servers and clients.

258
MIT
Used by 3
71Health
Library PyPI

Flask-SocketIO

Socket.IO integration that brings real-time WebSocket communication to Flask applications

5,506
MIT
Used by 2
47Health
Library Go

httpexpect

A chainable Go library for declarative, end-to-end HTTP and REST API testing.

2,726
MIT
Used by 2
81Health
Library PyPI

Autobahn|Python

WebSocket and WAMP protocol implementation for Python, running natively on both Twisted and asyncio.

2,543
MIT
Used by 2

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