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 helps you distribute work, out of the Cloud, beyond the edge and into your apps, reducing cost and server load.

  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

Desktop

To qualify, a runtime must be designed to run on the desktop of any OS without a 3rd party plugin or another runtime. Some frameworks source another runtime which adds significant complexity and bloat.

Mobile

To qualify, the runtime must be production ready and originally designed to run on mobile without impacting the user's code or adding complexity(such as sourcing another runtime).

Web Language

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.

Web Compatible

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

Any Backend

In Tauri, this is Rust. In Electron, this is Node. Socket doesn't care what adjacent process you run, it could be 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 is the first runtime to offer Web developers a complement to a traditional client-server architecture. P2P makes it possible to discover, connect to, and sync state with other users over the Internet and locally, even if all the other users of your app are offline — no Cloud or server infrastructure is required at all.

Socket Runtime's P2P builds on UDP, like HTTP3 and other modern protocols. Making P2P a native feature provides many opportunities for separating concerns and improving auditability.

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.

Write Once,Run Anywhere

Connect Everyone

Features

Relay Messenger Beta!

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