Socket Supply Co.

Take the Web beyond
the Browser and the Cloud.

Write Once,
Run Anywhere

Ship apps faster than anyone else using one skill set, and one codebase. You can even turn your existing web app into a native Socket app.

Connect Everyone

Our modern P2P protocol makes it possible for users anywhere in the world to communicate directly, in real-time or asynchronously — to distribute work beyond the data-center and into your apps, reducing Cloud cost and server workloads.

  import { network } from 'socket:network'

  const socket = await network()
  const cats = await socket.subcluster()

  cats.emit('mew', value)

  cats.on('mew', value => {
    // ...
  })

  cats.on('#connection', cat => {
    cat.emit('meow', value)

    cat.on('meow', value => {
      // ...
    })
  })

Features

Socket is 100% Free & Open Source. It has only one dependency (libuv), making it much easier to audit. Here's why Socket runtime is state-of-the-art, and why it's a significant enough improvement to replace your existing solution. Click (or tap) a topic for more details.

Desktop

Socket runtime was designed from the ground up to run on the desktop and mobile. React Native and Capacitor just add Electron to your prject. Adding an entire runtime to your project means adding a lot of additional complexiy, and a larger surface area to understand and secure.

Mobile

Socket runtime was designed from the ground up to run on the desktop and mobile and does not use any other runtimes or projects.

100% JavaScript

Socket Runtime is targeted at web developers who know JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Tauri requires learning Rust and Flutter requires learning Dart for them to be used as intended.

Browser Compatible

Socket runtime can run any code that runs in the browser. React Native for example does not have a DOM because it compiles the React AST to native components. There are third party projects that might get some Web libraries to work in React Native but at the cost of added complexity, risk, and build time.

Web-like Resolution

Socket runtime loads your resources into the UI just like a local web server, but with the capabilities of a secure context. This makes it much easier to turn your website into a native app.

Unified Webview

Socket runtime normalizes the differences between WebViews on different operating systems. Critical APIs we have made uniform for example are, fetch() (including Request, Response, and Headers), URL, geolocation, navigator.permissions, Notification API, File API, file system access and file pickers

Any Backend

In Tauri, this is Rust. In Electron, this is Node. Socket allows you to run any valid process that can read standard input and write to standard output.

Backend Optional

We consider the practice of separating frontend and backend to be a design mistake that has continued to influence runtimes since Electron's popularity. The design was a security precaution predicated on the idea that the backend, an arbitrary program containing potentially thousands of transient dependencies, having unmitigated access to the user's computer, could be fully trusted.

We advise creating Socket apps in a single process. Socket's APIs are constrained by the CSP, a native Web platform feature.

Native Add-ons

While React Native and Cordova-based solutions like Capacitor have large ecosystems of plugins, Socket runtime is batteries included — there is no need for the ordinary user to figure out who maintains or how to install critical components like filesystem or bluetooth. Socket does support native add-ons, but they're less critical to every day usage. This also improves auditability.

Native P2P

Socket's P2P allows unlimited users, who may be anywhere in the world, to communicate directly without any data-limits, without any servers or Cloud services, in real-time and asynchronously. This approach can have a substantial cost savings, improved latency in reduced round trips to the data-center as well as privacy and security upsides.

Bluetooth

Socket Runtime provides bluetooth as a native feature for all platforms that can be used for P2P in cases where wifi or internet is not available.

Relay Messenger Beta!

Relay Messenger is a proof of concept that demonstrates how to create a secure, Peer-To-Peer group messaging app for desktop and mobile. No servers or cloud hosting is required.

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Features

Relay Messenger Beta!

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