What is Nchan?
It is built as a module for the Nginx web server. It can be configured as a standalone server, or as a shim between your application and hundreds, thousands, or millions of live subscribers. It can buffer messages in memory, on-disk, or via Redis.
Nchan is a tool in the Realtime Backend / API category of a tech stack.
Nchan is an open source tool with 3K GitHub stars and 292 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Nchan's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Nchan?
Companies
6 companies reportedly use Nchan in their tech stacks, including Chilli, checkmk, and stack.
Developers
34 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Nchan.
Nchan's Features
- flexible pub/sub server
- Horizontally scalable (using Redis)
- Subscribe to hundreds of channels over a single subscriber connection.
Nchan Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Nchan?
Pushpin
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.
NATS
Unlike traditional enterprise messaging systems, NATS has an always-on dial tone that does whatever it takes to remain available. This forms a great base for building modern, reliable, and scalable cloud and distributed systems.
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
GitHub
GitHub is the best place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers. Over three million people use GitHub to build amazing things together.
