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Socket Programming Libraries

Libraries that provide cross-platform abstractions and utilities for low-level socket operations, enabling developers to work with network sockets in a consistent manner across different operating systems.

The Linux Foundation

by The Linux Foundation

42 projects ・ Updated 14 Mar 2025

Project
Contributors
Organizations
Software value
Baileys
2,755
230
$5.2M
libuv
2,617
800
$2.9M
ws
2,282
746
$401K
Libwebsockets
2,223
305
$16M
POCO
2,182
321
$36M
PyZMQ
1,417
447
$762K
websockets
1,224
340
$1.4M
Gorilla WebSocket
1,006
353
$194K
Mio
981
388
$470K
libfabric
930
154
$17M
LIBPCAP 1.x.y
869
214
$2.9M
Twisted
838
246
$11M
µWebSockets
801
185
$297K
RDMA Core
787
119
$8.2M
proxychains-ng
747
168
$125K
Excon
744
298
$309K
Wangle
668
69
$1.2M
µWebSockets.js
638
183
$183K
nanomsg
596
174
$1M
libpnet
532
157
$412K
Chisel - TCP/UDP tunnel
531
137
$151K
Tungstenite
483
181
$281K
gnet
468
77
$415K
Fizz
437
41
$2.9M
Haskell Network
416
141
$103K
Socket2
396
170
$247K
usrsctp
393
117
$2.9M
netaddr
296
112
$7.7M
zerocopy
285
105
$78M
Portable SDK for UPnP Devices
240
65
$1.5M
Acl
226
17
$39M
AWS-C-IO
194
35
$1.6M
ipaddr.js
168
63
$49K
node-datachannel
141
38
$376K
Apache Commons Net
135
34
$1M
libnice
108
20
$1.3M
multicast-dns
103
48
$19K
Faye WebSocket
78
42
$35K
websocket-driver
62
23
$89K
gensio
52
20
$3.8M
internal-ip
48
15
$13K
default-gateway
33
8
$10K
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