SocketStream

SocketStream: Real-Time Web Framework for Node.js

A lightweight Node.js web framework for real-time communication between server and clients, enabling fast and scalable apps with integrated live page updates.

What is SocketStream?

SocketStream is an open-source web framework for Node.js that enables real-time bidirectional communication between the server and clients. It abstracts away much of the boilerplate code required for real-time apps and provides a simple, convention-based structure for code organization.

Some key features of SocketStream include:

• Integrated support for live page updates without polling
• Simple server routing and controller structure
• Client-side Model-View-Controller architecture out of the box
• Pub/sub messaging between server and clients
• Session management and authentication modules
• Asset pipeline for LESS, CSS, JavaScript concatenation and minification

SocketStream aims to speed up web app development by handling real-time communication, asset optimization, and project conventions so developers can focus on business logic. It's a good fit for apps like chat, live blogs, collaboratiove editing tools, real-time dashboards, and multiplayer games.

It works by establishing persistent WebSocket connections from the browser clients to the SocketStream server, which allows instant sending and receiving of messages without the latency of HTTP polling. This enables features like updating interfaces in real-time when data changes on the server side.

SocketStream is built on standards like HTTP, WebSocket, and HTML5, making it scalable and portable across environments. It has a small footprint and development community behind it actively maintaining and evolving the project.

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