Top 12 Open-Source Alternatives to Django Channels

Django Channels

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The top open-source alternatives to Django Channels are Pusher, Socket.io, and Pushpin. One of the criteria for ordering this list is the number of mentions that products have on reliable external sources. You can suggest additional sources through the form here.

Pusher Landing Page
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Pusher

Pusher is a hosted API for quickly, easily and securely adding scalable realtime functionality via WebSockets to web and mobile apps.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Mobile Push Messaging #Developer Tools #App Development 50 social mentions
Socket.io Landing Page
2

Socket.io

Realtime application framework (Node.JS server)
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #App Development #Mobile Push Messaging 717 social mentions
Pushpin Landing Page
3

Pushpin

Reverse proxy for realtime web services
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #App Development #Cloud Computing 9 social mentions
Firehose.io Landing Page
4

Firehose.io

Build realtime Ruby web applications
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #App Development #Queueing, Messaging And Background Processing
NATS Landing Page
5

NATS

NATS.io is an open source messaging system for cloud native applications, IoT messaging, Edge, and microservices architectures.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #Queueing, Messaging And Background Processing #App Development 63 social mentions
RabbitMQ Landing Page
6

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ is an open source message broker software.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Data Integration #Web Service Automation #Stream Processing 1 social mentions
SocketCluster Landing Page
7

SocketCluster

An open, scalable realtime engine for Node.js
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Developer Tools #App Development #Mobile Push Messaging 8 social mentions
Apache Kafka Landing Page
8

Apache Kafka

Apache Kafka is an open-source message broker project developed by the Apache Software Foundation written in Scala.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Stream Processing #Data Integration #ETL 120 social mentions
FastAPI Landing Page
9

FastAPI

FastAPI is an Open Source, modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Free
#Developer Tools #API Tools #Python Programming 234 social mentions
OneSignal Landing Page
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OneSignal

Customer engagement platform used by over 1 million developers and marketers; the fastest and most reliable way to send mobile and web push notifications, in-app messages, emails, and SMS.
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $9.0 / Monthly (Plus usage-based costs. (Growth Plan). )
#Mobile Push Messaging #Web Push Notifications #Push Notifications 25 social mentions
Postman Landing Page
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Postman

The Collaboration Platform for API Development
Pricing:
- Open Source
#APIs #API Tools #Developer Tools 27 social mentions
Insomnia REST Landing Page
12

Insomnia REST

The most intuitive cross-platform REST API Client ð´
Pricing:
- Open Source
#API Tools #API #Developer Tools 120 social mentions