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Streamdata.io vs ws: What are the differences?
Streamdata.io: Efficiently Turn APIs into Real-time Experiences. Streamdata.io is a real-time cache proxy allowing you to poll JSON REST APIs and push updates to clients. Streamdata.io also keeps a history of modifications that occur on the data between two pollings. This way, streamdata.io is able to give you the list of modifications which happened since last time you fetched the data; ws: A Node.js WebSocket library. It is a simple to use, blazing fast, and thoroughly tested WebSocket client and server implementation.
Streamdata.io and ws belong to "Realtime Backend / API" category of the tech stack.
ws is an open source tool with 12.4K GitHub stars and 1.6K GitHub forks. Here's a link to ws's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Streamdata.io
- Best way to stream a static API1
- The quickest way to turn any existing API into stream1