Socket.io client alternative

[Kevin Ingwersen (Ingwie Phoenix)]

Hey.

Have you noticed, that - uncompressed - socket.io-client is pretty huge, actually? It almost competes with jQuery. That is why I would like to know if there is a thinner alternative to the „original“ client?

Kind regards, Ingwie.

[Madhur Ahuja]

Try out faye altogether

http://faye.jcoglan.com/

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[klrumpf]

https://github.com/faye/faye-websocket-node

works very nicely

[Guillermo Rauch]

Starting with 1.5 we'll remove most of the legacy browser support, in a way that compatibility can still be retained through polyfilling. That said, client code build size is probably one of the last things you should be optimizing. By the time the code loads, gets parsed and the socket connects, the user could already be looking at data.

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[Christopher Ross]

you would have to check the size but you can browserify the ws module as mentioned on their page and use their client connect, the api is a little different. https://github.com/websockets/ws#browserify-users

another alternative if you are concerned about the size of the module is rolling your own, mdn actually has a nice tutorial on that. 

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/WebSockets/Writing_WebSocket_client_applications#Availability_of_WebSockets