65 projects
Node.js
Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine.
Contributors
51,361
Organizations
9,961
Software value
$3.9B
The Symfony PHP Framework
Symfony is a PHP web application framework designed for building robust, scalable, and maintainable web applications using reusable components and a structured MVC architecture. It’s widely used for enterprise-level projects and forms the foundation of many other PHP platforms, including Laravel and Drupal.
Contributors
17,002
Organizations
3,376
Software value
$67M
Socket.IO
Socket.IO is a real-time bidirectional event-based communication library that enables real-time, bidirectional and event-based communication between web clients and servers. It primarily works over WebSocket and provides automatic fallback to other transport methods when WebSocket isn't available.
Contributors
7,859
Organizations
2,126
Software value
$8.1M
Tokio
Tokio is an asynchronous runtime for the Rust programming language that enables building reliable network applications. It provides a platform for writing fast, non-blocking network services with features like async I/O, timers, scheduling, and concurrency primitives.
Contributors
3,946
Organizations
1,306
Software value
$3.4M
hyper
Hyper is a fast and safe HTTP implementation written in and for Rust, designed to be both a client and server framework with a focus on high performance and correctness
Contributors
2,286
Organizations
864
Software value
$888K
ws
A fast, lightweight, and production-ready WebSocket client and server implementation for Node.js
Contributors
2,279
Organizations
746
Software value
$401K
Flask-SocketIO
Socket.IO integration for Flask applications.
Contributors
1,946
Organizations
374
Software value
$112K
C++ REST SDK
The C++ REST SDK (cpprestsdk) is a Microsoft open source project that provides a modern asynchronous C++ API for cloud-based client-server communication. It enables C++ developers to connect to and interact with web services using REST APIs, with support for JSON, OAuth, and HTTP/HTTPS protocols.
Contributors
1,775
Organizations
256
Software value
$2.6M
Mongoose - Embedded Web Server
Embedded TCP/IP network stack with embedded web server, Websocket, and MQTT client
Contributors
1,574
Organizations
280
Software value
$50M
Reactor Netty
Reactor Netty is a non-blocking and event-driven network application framework built on top of Netty, providing reactive streams backpressure-ready network engines for HTTP (including WebSockets), TCP, and UDP. It enables building fast and efficient network applications using reactive programming patterns.
Contributors
1,455
Organizations
266
Software value
$3.3M
EventMachine
EventMachine: fast, simple event-processing library for Ruby programs
Contributors
1,378
Organizations
527
Software value
$597K
Boost.Beast
Boost.Beast is a C++ library that implements HTTP/1, WebSocket, and network protocol algorithms using Boost.Asio. It provides a robust foundation for building networking applications and web services, with a focus on performance and standards compliance.
Contributors
1,275
Organizations
230
Software value
$4.4M
libevent
Event notification library
Contributors
1,267
Organizations
285
Software value
$2.6M
websockets
A library for building WebSocket servers and clients in Python with a focus on correctness, simplicity, robustness and performance
Contributors
1,224
Organizations
339
Software value
$1.4M
Finagle
A fault tolerant, protocol-agnostic RPC system
Contributors
1,207
Organizations
277
Software value
$6.7M
Async Http Client
Asynchronous Http and WebSocket Client library for Java
Contributors
1,141
Organizations
290
Software value
$1M
Proxygen
Proxygen is a collection of C++ HTTP libraries and servers developed by Facebook, including an easy-to-use HTTP server, a performance-oriented HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 server library, and a flexible HTTP proxy library. It provides a robust framework for building high-performance web services and applications.
Contributors
1,034
Organizations
134
Software value
$5.8M
Eventlet
Eventlet is a concurrent networking library for Python that provides a high-level interface for writing network applications. It uses coroutines to make the code appear synchronous while performing non-blocking I/O operations, and includes tools for pooling, threading, and green threading.
Contributors
973
Organizations
296
Software value
$1M
Seastar
High performance server-side application framework
Contributors
840
Organizations
174
Software value
$3.9M
Twisted
Twisted is an event-driven networking engine written in Python that enables developers to build networked applications. It supports multiple protocols including HTTP, SMTP, IRC, SSH, and more, while providing a high-level asynchronous programming interface.
Contributors
837
Organizations
244
Software value
$11M
SwiftNIO
Event-driven network application framework for high performance protocol servers & clients, non-blocking.
Contributors
814
Organizations
196
Software value
$5.7M
µWebSockets
µWebSockets is a high-performance WebSocket and HTTP server library written in C++, designed for building scalable real-time applications with minimal overhead and memory footprint. It provides a low-latency networking foundation optimized for Linux/macOS systems.
Contributors
795
Organizations
185
Software value
$296K
Workerman
An asynchronous event driven PHP socket framework. Supports HTTP, Websocket, SSL and other custom protocols.
Contributors
715
Organizations
83
Software value
$235K
c-ares
c-ares is a C library for asynchronous DNS requests and name resolution. It provides non-blocking DNS operations and is designed to be used in event-driven network applications.
Contributors
677
Organizations
234
Software value
$1.7M
Wangle
Wangle is a C++ networking library built on top of Facebook's folly library that provides a high-performance asynchronous client/server framework. It implements common client/server protocols and offers abstractions for writing custom network services.
Contributors
661
Organizations
69
Software value
$1.2M
µWebSockets.js
µWebSockets.js is a high-performance WebSocket server and client implementation for Node.js, focusing on efficiency, low latency, and scalability. It provides a lightweight alternative to standard WebSocket libraries with minimal overhead and memory footprint.
Contributors
633
Organizations
180
Software value
$172K
Quinn
Async-friendly QUIC implementation in Rust
Contributors
629
Organizations
223
Software value
$1.1M
mvfst
MVFST is a client and server implementation of the QUIC transport protocol developed by Facebook/Meta. It provides a reliable, secure, and performant transport layer for modern networking applications, with features like multiplexing, stream prioritization, and congestion control.
Contributors
625
Organizations
63
Software value
$5.9M
HTTP.jl
HTTP for Julia
Contributors
606
Organizations
174
Software value
$447K
ACE/TAO
ACE and TAO
Contributors
524
Organizations
41
Software value
$58M
Sogou C++ Workflow
A high-performance C++ networking framework designed for building asynchronous servers and clients, featuring a parallel computing engine, workflow orchestration capabilities, and HTTP/Redis/MySQL client components. It provides an efficient task scheduling system and supports complex parallel task dependencies.
Contributors
497
Organizations
55
Software value
$1.8M
Tungstenite
Tungstenite is a lightweight, low-level WebSocket implementation in Rust that provides a streaming WebSocket client and server library. It supports both synchronous and asynchronous operation modes and follows the WebSocket protocol specification (RFC 6455).
Contributors
480
Organizations
180
Software value
$277K
Boost Math Library
Super-project for modularized Boost
Contributors
451
Organizations
101
Software value
$36M
tokio-tungstenite
A WebSocket client and server implementation for the Tokio async runtime in Rust, providing asynchronous WebSocket communication capabilities with TLS support
Contributors
403
Organizations
153
Software value
$161K
H2
H2 is a pure-Rust implementation of the HTTP/2 protocol, providing both client and server functionality. It enables high-performance, multiplexed HTTP/2 communication with support for streams, flow control, and other HTTP/2 features.
Contributors
391
Organizations
182
Software value
$71M
python-engineio
Python-engineio is a Python implementation of the Engine.IO realtime client and server, providing a transport layer for real-time bidirectional event-based communication between clients and servers. It supports multiple transport mechanisms including WebSocket and HTTP long-polling.
Contributors
359
Organizations
114
Software value
$468K
Tower
async fn(Request) -> Result<Response, Error>
Contributors
353
Organizations
160
Software value
$342K
Blaze
Blazing fast NIO microframework and Http Parser
Contributors
306
Organizations
81
Software value
$735K
Actix Net
A collection of lower-level libraries for composable network services.
Contributors
292
Organizations
120
Software value
$428K
zerocopy
A zero-copy networking library for Linux that enables efficient data transfer between user space and kernel space without redundant memory copying, improving performance in network applications
Contributors
282
Organizations
103
Software value
$78M
AWS C Common
Core c99 package for AWS SDK for C. Includes cross-platform primitives, configuration, data structures, and error handling.
Contributors
256
Organizations
56
Software value
$1.9M
Acl
ACL (Advanced Communication Library) is a C/C++ network and application server framework that provides functionality for network communication, database access, memory management, and thread management. It includes features for both synchronous and asynchronous communication, HTTP protocols, Redis/Memcached drivers, and various utility modules for building high-performance server applications.
Contributors
225
Organizations
18
Software value
$39M
Async Ruby
An awesome asynchronous event-driven reactor for Ruby.
Contributors
210
Organizations
103
Software value
$381K
pycares
pycares is a Python extension module that provides an interface to the c-ares library for asynchronous DNS requests. It enables non-blocking DNS operations and supports features like name resolution, reverse lookups, and query timeouts.
Contributors
206
Organizations
72
Software value
$131K
AWS-C-IO
AWS-C-IO is a C99 library implementing cross-platform event-stream I/O. It provides functionality for asynchronous streaming, TLS encryption, TCP/UDP networking, and file operations, serving as a foundational component for AWS client-side software development.
Contributors
194
Organizations
35
Software value
$1.6M
aiodns
aiodns is an asynchronous DNS resolver library for Python that provides DNS queries using the pycares library, designed to work with asyncio for non-blocking DNS operations
Contributors
175
Organizations
64
Software value
$72K
libre
A portable SIP client library and framework for real-time communications, providing core functionality for SIP signaling, media handling, and network transport
Contributors
150
Organizations
23
Software value
$2.9M
ServiceTalk
A networking framework that evolves with your application
Contributors
148
Organizations
28
Software value
$9.3M
tokio-rustls
A TLS/SSL library implementation for Tokio that provides asynchronous TLS/SSL streams using the Rustls TLS stack, offering a pure-Rust alternative to OpenSSL for secure network communication
Contributors
146
Organizations
60
Software value
$81K
request-ip
A Node.js module that gets the client IP address from a request object, supporting various headers and proxy configurations
Contributors
145
Organizations
42
Software value
$35K
HTTP Body
A Rust library that provides traits and types for representing HTTP message bodies, enabling streaming and asynchronous handling of request and response payloads
Contributors
96
Organizations
56
Software value
$81K
node-macaddress
A Node.js library for retrieving MAC addresses of network interfaces on various operating systems, providing cross-platform functionality to get hardware addresses in a consistent format
Contributors
93
Organizations
35
Software value
$19K
Faye WebSocket
A standards-compliant WebSocket client and server implementation for Node.js, providing both the server and client WebSocket APIs with support for the ws protocol and EventSource
Contributors
78
Organizations
42
Software value
$35K
Netty Reactive Streams
Netty Reactive Streams is a library that provides reactive streams implementation for Netty, enabling asynchronous stream processing with non-blocking back pressure in Netty-based applications
Contributors
65
Organizations
29
Software value
$116K
websocket-driver
A WebSocket driver implementation for Node.js that provides a complete, standards-compliant WebSocket client and server library. It handles the WebSocket protocol details including handshakes, frame formatting, and message handling.
Contributors
62
Organizations
23
Software value
$89K
Apache Pekko HTTP
The Streaming-first HTTP server/module of Apache Pekko
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Cohttp
An OCaml library for HTTP clients and servers using Lwt or Async
This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.
Engine.IO
The engine used in the Socket.IO JavaScript server, which manages the low-level transports such as HTTP long-polling and WebSocket.
This project hasn't been onboarded to LFX Insights.