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Faye
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Open-source software · Apache 2.0 license
Read 4 Oct 2026 · faye.jcoglan.com
On the record
- Additional backends
- The engine documentation lists separate faye-redis, faye-redis-sharded and faye-couchbase backends.faye.jcoglan.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Browser connection model
- Browser documentation recommends one Faye client per target server because browsers limit connections per host.faye.jcoglan.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Browser requirement
- Browser clients require a Faye server to handle message delivery between clients.faye.jcoglan.com · read 4 Oct 2026
- Channel subscriptions
- Subscriptions support wildcard channel patterns and return cancellable subscription promises.faye.jcoglan.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Client recovery
- The browser client periodically retries after a lost connection and can redeliver dropped messages.faye.jcoglan.com · read 4 Oct 2026
- Client support
- Clients can run on servers and in major web browsers.faye.jcoglan.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Clustering tradeoff
- Redis-backed clustering enables scaling across front ends but adds external I/O and is slower than in-process storage.faye.jcoglan.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Credential handling
- The security guide says server extensions should remove authorization credentials before messages are forwarded to subscribers.faye.jcoglan.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Cross-domain support
- Faye clients and servers support cross-domain communication without extra configuration.faye.jcoglan.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Extensibility
- User-written client and server extensions can intercept, modify or reject messages.faye.jcoglan.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Extensions
- Server and client extensions can intercept and modify incoming or outgoing messages, including to implement subscription authentication.faye.jcoglan.com · read 4 Oct 2026
- Independent activity limit
- Ruby Toolbox rates faye-websocket 0.88 and flags low commit activity and no release in over a year.ruby-toolbox.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Independent maintenance limit
- Snyk's analyzed snapshot labels maintenance inactive, with no commits in six months, 19 open issues, four open pull requests and one maintainer.security.snyk.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- Independent popularity
- Snyk reports about 1.7 million weekly npm downloads and roughly 4,385 GitHub stars for Faye.security.snyk.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- Independent repository scale
- GitHub shows the Faye organization repository with about 4.4k stars and 367 forks, plus separate Ruby and Node WebSocket repositories.github.com · read 15 Oct 2026
- Independent security status
- Snyk reports no known security issues for the package version it analyzed, while recording four historical vulnerabilities in older versions.security.snyk.io · read 15 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The download instructions provide installation through npm for Node.js and RubyGems for Ruby.faye.jcoglan.com · read 4 Oct 2026
- Latest release
- The download page lists version 1.4.3, released 27 September 2026.faye.jcoglan.com · read 15 Oct 2026
