The WebSocket API (WebSockets)

The WebSocket API is an advanced technology that makes it possible to open a two-way interactive communication session between the user's browser and a server. With this API, you can send messages to a server and receive event-driven responses without having to poll the server for a reply.

Note: While a WebSocket connection is functionally somewhat similar to standard Unix-style sockets, they are not related.

Interfaces

WebSocket
CloseEvent
MessageEvent

Guides

Tools

AsyncAPI : A specification for describing event-driven architectures based on protocols like WebSocket. You can use it to describe WebSocket-based APIs just as you would describe REST APIs with the OpenAPI specification. Learn why you should consider using AsyncAPI with WebSocket and how to do so .
HumbleNet : A cross-platform networking library that works in the browser. It consists of a C wrapper around WebSockets and WebRTC that abstracts away cross-browser differences, facilitating the creation of multi-user networking functionality for games and other apps.
µWebSockets : Highly scalable WebSocket server and client implementation for C++11 and Node.js .
Socket.IO : A long polling/WebSocket based third party transfer protocol for Node.js .
SocketCluster : A pub/sub WebSocket framework for Node.js with a focus on scalability.
WebSocket-Node : A WebSocket server API implementation for Node.js .
Total.js : Web application framework for Node.js (Example: WebSocket chat )
Faye : A WebSocket (two-ways connections) and EventSource (one-way connections) for Node.js Server and Client.
SignalR : SignalR will use WebSockets under the covers when it's available, and gracefully fallback to other techniques and technologies when it isn't, while your application code stays the same.
Caddy : A web server capable of proxying arbitrary commands (stdin/stdout) as a websocket.
ws : a popular WebSocket client & server library for Node.js .
jsonrpc-bidirectional : Asynchronous RPC which, on a single connection, may have functions exported on the server and, and the same time, on the client (client may call server, server may also call client).
cowboy : Cowboy is a small, fast and modern HTTP server for Erlang/OTP with WebSocket support.
ZeroMQ : ZeroMQ is embeddable networking library that carries messages across in-process, IPC, TCP, UDP, TIPC, multicast and WebSocket.
WebSocket King : A client tool to help develop, test and work with WebSocket servers.
PHP WebSocket Server : Server written in PHP to handle connections via websockets wss:// or ws://and normal sockets over ssl:// ,tcp://
Channels : Django library that adds support for WebSockets (and other protocols that require long running asynchronous connections).
Flask-SocketIO : gives Flask applications access to low latency bi-directional communications between the clients and the server.