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Pushpin vs SignalR: What are the differences?
What is Pushpin? Reverse proxy for realtime web services. Pushpin is a reverse proxy server that makes it easy to build realtime web services. The project is unique among realtime push solutions in that it is designed to address the needs of API creators.
What is 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.
Pushpin and SignalR belong to "Realtime Backend / API" category of the tech stack.
Pushpin and SignalR are both open source tools. SignalR with 7.73K GitHub stars and 2.19K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Pushpin with 2.52K GitHub stars and 96 GitHub forks.
Pros of Pushpin
- Open source3
Pros of SignalR
- Supports .NET server32
- Real-time25
- Free18
- Fallback to SSE, forever frame, long polling16
- WebSockets15
- Simple10
- Open source9
- Ease of use8
- JSON8
- Cool5
- Azure0
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Cons of Pushpin
- Worst community support1
Cons of SignalR
- Expertise hard to get2
- Requires jQuery2
- Weak iOS and Android support1
- Big differences between ASP.NET and Core versions1
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