What is Radar?
Radar is built on top of engine.io, the next-generation backend for socket.io. It uses Redis for backend storage, though the assumption is that this is only for storing currently active data.
Radar is a tool in the Realtime Backend / API category of a tech stack.
Radar is an open source tool with 220 GitHub stars and 42 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Radar's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Radar?
Radar's Features
- More than just pub/sub: a resource-based API for presence, messaging and push notifications via a Javascript client library
- Written in Javascript/Node.js, and uses engine.io (the new, low-level complement to socket.io)
- Backend to multiple front-facing servers
- REST API for working with web apps that don't use Node (presently, rework in progress)
Radar Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Radar?
NGINX
nginx [engine x] is an HTTP and reverse proxy server, as well as a mail proxy server, written by Igor Sysoev. According to Netcraft nginx served or proxied 30.46% of the top million busiest sites in Jan 2018.
Apache HTTP Server
The Apache HTTP Server is a powerful and flexible HTTP/1.1 compliant web server. Originally designed as a replacement for the NCSA HTTP Server, it has grown to be the most popular web server on the Internet.
Amazon EC2
It is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud. It is designed to make web-scale computing easier for developers.
Firebase
Firebase is a cloud service designed to power real-time, collaborative applications. Simply add the Firebase library to your application to gain access to a shared data structure; any changes you make to that data are automatically synchronized with the Firebase cloud and with other clients within milliseconds.
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
It is a comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform, offering over 200 fully featured services from data centers globally.
