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Faye vs Tungstenite

Faye

faye.jcoglan.com

Tungstenite

github.com

Side by side

FigureFayeTungstenite
Price fromFree—
Free planYes—
Free trial——
Open sourceYes—
WebYes—
WindowsYesYes
macOSYesYes
LinuxYesYes
APIYes—
Self-hostedYes—
Plans published10
Spec score · WebSocket Tools8.8 (#3)5.5 (#42)

Plans

Faye

  • FayeFree

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Tungstenite

No plans published.

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In their own words

Faye

Faye is a publish-subscribe messaging system that uses the Bayeux protocol. It provides message servers for Node.js and Ruby, plus clients for servers and major web browsers. Browser clients rely on a Faye server to relay messages; they can retry after a lost connection and redeliver dropped messages. Transport adapters cover WebSocket, HTTP long-polling, Cross Origin Resource Sharing, and JSON-P callback-polling. Server and client extensions can intercept or modify messages, including to add subscription authentication. The monitoring API reports handshakes, subscriptions, unsubscriptions, publishes, and disconnections. Faye runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows, and can be self-hosted. Its default in-process engine cannot span multiple front-end web servers, but Redis and Couchbase engines are documented for distributed deployments. Faye is free and open source under the Apache 2.0 license; the listed plan is free. Install the Node.js server through npm or the Ruby server through RubyGems.

Visit faye.jcoglan.com

Tungstenite

Tungstenite has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.

Visit github.com