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Pusher

Stacks479

Followers976

+ 1

Votes226

SignalR

Stacks324

Followers742

+ 1

Votes81

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Pusher vs SignalR: What are the differences?

Pusher: Hosted APIs to build realtime apps with less code. Pusher is the category leader in delightful APIs for app developers building communication and collaboration features; SignalR: A new library for ASP.NET developers that makes developing real-time web functionality easy. SignalR allows bi-directional communication between server and client. Servers can now push content to connected clients instantly as it becomes available. SignalR supports Web Sockets, and falls back to other compatible techniques for older browsers. SignalR includes APIs for connection management (for instance, connect and disconnect events), grouping connections, and authorization.

Pusher and SignalR can be categorized as "Realtime Backend / API" tools.

"An easy way to give customers realtime features" is the top reason why over 44 developers like Pusher, while over 7 developers mention "Supports .NET server" as the leading cause for choosing SignalR.

SignalR is an open source tool with 7.73K GitHub stars and 2.19K GitHub forks. Here's a link to SignalR's open source repository on GitHub.

According to the StackShare community, Pusher has a broader approval, being mentioned in 123 company stacks & 42 developers stacks; compared to SignalR, which is listed in 20 company stacks and 16 developer stacks.

Pros of Pusher

Pros of SignalR

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An easy way to give customers realtime features
39
Websockets
35
Simple
27
Easy to get started with
24
Free plan
12
Heroku Add-on
11
Easy and fast to configure and to understand
9
JSON
6
Azure Add-on
5
Support
4
Push notification
4
Happy

16
Supports .NET server
13
Real-time
11
Free
10
Fallback to SSE, forever frame, long polling
9
WebSockets
7
JSON
6
Simple
4
Open source
4
Cool
1
Ease of use

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Cons of Pusher

Cons of SignalR

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Costly
0
Aa

1
Requires jQuery
1
Expertise hard to get
1
Weak iOS and Android support

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What is Pusher?

Pusher is the category leader in delightful APIs for app developers building communication and collaboration features.

What is SignalR?

SignalR allows bi-directional communication between server and client. Servers can now push content to connected clients instantly as it becomes available. SignalR supports Web Sockets, and falls back to other compatible techniques for older browsers. SignalR includes APIs for connection management (for instance, connect and disconnect events), grouping connections, and authorization.

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What are some alternatives to Pusher and SignalR?

PubNub

PubNub makes it easy for you to add real-time capabilities to your apps, without worrying about the infrastructure. Build apps that allow your users to engage in real-time across mobile, browser, desktop and server.

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.

Chat by Stream

Chat API and SDK. With a beautiful UI Kit, easy to use React Components and powerful API. Add Chat to any application in a matter of hours. The tech uses Go, RocksDB and Raft. By the creators of Stream, the API that powers activity feeds for more than 300 million users.

Twilio

Twilio offers developers a powerful API for phone services to make and receive phone calls, and send and receive text messages. Their product allows programmers to more easily integrate various communication methods into their software and programs.

Socket.IO

It enables real-time bidirectional event-based communication. It works on every platform, browser or device, focusing equally on reliability and speed.

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How much does Pusher cost?

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News about Pusher

Breaking realtime records with The Washington Post’s election coverage

(blog.pusher.com)

7 days ago

From the Pusher team: We’re joining MessageBird!

(blog.pusher.com)

Dec 16, 2020