uNetworking/uWebSockets.js
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μWebSockets for Node.js back-ends :metal:
24 mentions on Hacker News by 15 people: 2 stories, 22 comments · first 2019-09-17 · latest 2026-06-01
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I came across this interesting rant the other day: https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js/blob/master/mi... It does make sense that the right way would be to fork every dependency you use and install from your own repo reviewing and…
comment by gbuk2013 · 2026-06-01 · in Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services -
Interesting that https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js (which is C++ with node bindings) outperforms the raw C++ uWebSockets implementation. It's also interesting that https://github.com/websockets/ws does not appear in this study,…
comment by simpaticoder · 2024-11-23 · in An Analysis of the Performance of WebSockets in Various Programming Languages (2021) -
…encore does benchmark compared to encore, uwsjs, bun, and fastify. express is just so damn slow. https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js
comment by uncomplexity · 2024-10-28 · in Using Rust in non-Rust servers to improve performance -
Just go to its repo https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js and see the uWebSockets submodule dependency that it's written in C++ (90.9%) and C (6.8%)...so sure, a "fair" comparison indeed with vanilla implementation!
comment by stefanos82 · 2024-04-02 · in Developing a Modern Full-Stack Application: Choosing the Right Tech Stack -
…in node, and you'll leave Deno in the dust again. (uws is also what's under the hood in bun) https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js
comment by porsager · 2023-07-05 · in Deno 1.35: A fast and convenient way to build web servers -
have you tried https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js/
comment by joshxyz · 2023-06-05 · in Ask HN: How do you handle WebSocket connections reconnect problem? -
…to another IP address in the code. The server only uses only one port. 9001 according to the code. https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js/blob/875f16e1f... This blog post does not make any sense.
comment by miyuru · 2023-02-21 · in Millions of active WebSockets with Node.js -
…entirely to perform well at that particular usecase (high throughout for small bits of data). https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js
comment by dmix · 2022-10-16 · in Deno vs. Bun performance is rigged -
…I think what they mean is it uses uWebSockets.js, a Node.js module wrapping a C++ implementation. https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js
comment by davedunkin · 2022-08-25 · in Soketi: Simple, fast and resilient open-source WebSockets server -
…with uWebSockets.js There are better alternatives like the following: - https://www.fastify.io/ - https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js - https://github.com/kartikk221/hyper-express
comment by joshxyz · 2022-08-20 · in Ask HN: So, what's up with Phoenix (web framework)? -
…In fact it beats everything based on Node's built-in http module, such as fastify, hapi, koa. https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js
comment by joshxyz · 2022-08-20 · in Ask HN: So, what's up with Phoenix (web framework)? -
https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js seems more popular in the crypto world.
comment by captn3m0 · 2022-07-20 · in Contributing to WebSockets – Cryptocurrency Users -
I think you're right. Here's a project proving the exact opposite of native bindings being slow - https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js
comment by porsager · 2022-03-25 · in Show HN: Postgres.js – Fastest Full-Featured PostgreSQL Client for Node and Deno -
…performance than most web frameworks out there. - https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets - https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js/ - https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets/tree/master/bench...
comment by joshxyz · 2022-02-24 · in Ask HN: Any one with experience with Server Sent Event at scale? -
…as it's 12-factor where you got a session store / pub-sub mechanism that both servers can use. - https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js - https://12factor.net/
comment by joshxyz · 2021-10-30 · in Ask HN: Approaches to load balancing web sockets? -
…but question is do you really need those right now? The answer greatly varies per project. [0] https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js/
comment by joshxyz · 2021-04-26 · in Ask HN: Is Learning GO worth It if you know Node.js? -
…are just convincing. Highly recommend people using ExpressJS / Koa / whatever to try it. [0] https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js/ [1] https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets/tree/master/bench...
comment by joshxyz · 2021-01-27 · in Data fetching on the web still sucks -
…uwebsockets.js is what you'd want since it's mature enough already (used by top crypto exchanges). https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js/ And oh it comes with TS types which are cool.
comment by joshxyz · 2021-01-16 · in Rust is a hard way to make a web API -
…architectural choices are frozen and any significant perf improvments become impossible? [1] https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js
comment by leeoniya · 2020-01-21 · in Deno: JavaScript Runtime for V8 Written in Rust -
…loop holes in file upload and I didn't know shit about language. At that time I found uws ( https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js ) that easily got me to 10K easily, and I was like "I would rather bet on a community investing on…
comment by maxpert · 2019-12-24 · in Million WebSockets and Go (2017) -
…than the one mentioned in the blog. It can handle 6X more connections and much less memory https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js EDIT: Note that the blog post is from 2015. There are many optimization (Ignition and TurboFan…
comment by truth_seeker · 2019-10-11 · in 600k concurrent websocket connections on AWS using Node.js (2015) -
…benchmarks (despite being able to score very well) because he says their methodology is flawed. [1] https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js/
comment by leeoniya · 2019-09-17 · in GraalVM: The holy graal of polyglot JVM?