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SignalR vs Unifrost: What are the differences?

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.

What is Unifrost? Stream PubSub Messages to the Browser. It is a go module for relaying pubsub messages to the web via SSE(Eventsource). It is based on Twitter's implementation for real-time event-streaming in their new web app.

SignalR and Unifrost belong to "Realtime Backend / API" category of the tech stack.

SignalR and Unifrost are both open source tools. SignalR with 7.94K GitHub stars and 2.21K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Unifrost with 136 GitHub stars and 8 GitHub forks.

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Pros of SignalR

Pros of Unifrost

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Supports .NET server
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Real-time
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Free
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Fallback to SSE, forever frame, long polling
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WebSockets
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Simple
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Open source
8
Ease of use
8
JSON
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Cool
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Cons of SignalR

Cons of Unifrost

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Expertise hard to get
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Requires jQuery
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Weak iOS and Android support
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Big differences between ASP.NET and Core versions

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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.

What is Unifrost?

It is a go module for relaying pubsub messages to the web via SSE(Eventsource). It is based on Twitter's implementation for real-time event-streaming in their new web app.

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What are some alternatives to SignalR and Unifrost?

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.

Pusher

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

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ gives your applications a common platform to send and receive messages, and your messages a safe place to live until received.

WebRTC

It is a free, open project that enables web browsers with Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities via simple JavaScript APIs. The WebRTC components have been optimized to best serve this purpose.

MQTT

It was designed as an extremely lightweight publish/subscribe messaging transport. It is useful for connections with remote locations where a small code footprint is required and/or network bandwidth is at a premium.

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