The best Workerman alternatives
4 tools that do a similar job to Workerman, 4 of them open source. Each entry says what it does and who it suits, so you can pick the one that fits instead of the most famous.
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WorkermanA PHP framework for building fast, event-driven network servers over HTTP, WebSocket, and TCP.
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Ratchet
Open source · MIT · ★ 14.7k
A small set of HTML, CSS and JavaScript components for building mobile-style web apps.
Best for: Developers prototyping a mobile-style web interface with plain HTML, CSS and JS; Designers who want to see mobile UI components in a browser
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Baileys
Open source · MIT · ★ 11.5k
A TypeScript/JavaScript library for building WhatsApp Web clients over WebSockets, without a browser.
Best for: Developers who want to script WhatsApp message handling in TypeScript or JavaScript; Teams that want to avoid running a headless browser for WhatsApp Web integration
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Tokio
Open source · MIT · ★ 33.6k
A Rust library for writing fast, reliable async programs that handle networking and timers.
Best for: Rust developers building network servers or clients; Teams writing async services that handle many connections at once
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libuv
Open source · MIT · ★ 27.3k
A C library that handles asynchronous input/output and event loops across operating systems.
Best for: Developers building networked or I/O-heavy software in C or a language with C bindings; Teams that need the same async I/O code to run on Linux, macOS, and Windows
How we pick: tools in the same category that solve the same problem, projects that name each other as alternatives, and open-source projects that describe themselves as an alternative to Workerman. We don't take payment for placement.