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Elixir vs SockJS

A side-by-side look at Elixir and SockJS. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Elixir

Elixir

Development

Elixir is a modern, functional, concurrent programming language built on top of the Erlang VM. It takes advantages of Erlang's rock-solid fault-tolerance and scalability while also introducing cleaner and more maintainable syntax. Elixir is well-suited for building distributed, fault-tolerant applications.

functionalconcurrentfaulttolerantscalabledistributed
SockJS

SockJS

Development

SockJS is a JavaScript library that provides a WebSocket-like object in the browser. It automatically falls back to other transports like HTTP long-polling if WebSockets are not available.

websocketrealtimecommunication

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