Any good websocket library?

[bold glade]

Hey! I haven't worked with Gleam in a long time, and now i want to get back with a little project. I remember there was this websocket library called nerf iirc, but it had some quirks that made some connections not possible... And sadly i saw that it hasn't been updated in a long time :( Are there any news or other websocket librarys i could use?

[fickle canopy]

are you looking for a websocket client or server?

ah probably client if you were looking at nerf

[bold glade]

Sorry for not being specific, i'm talking about a client yeah

[fickle canopy]

seems theres a PR to nerf to bring it up to date but its blocked on some stuff. it probably wouldn't be so much work to do, i think your best bet would be to copy the library into your project for now 😵

i think we are sorely lacking on both http and websocket clients at the moment, got a quite a few servers

[fickle canopy]

i'd recommend creating a new folder in your project called vendor and cloning the nerf repo into there. then in your project's gleam.toml under [dependencies] add:

nerf = { path = "./vendor/nerf" }

if louis gets round to updating the package it should be as easy as removing that line and doing glea add nerf in the future 🙂

[bold glade]

Well http clients seem to be good, i mean i also didn't use them much, but hackney or httpc are two i saw that provide most of the stuff you'd need, but ye the websocket part is sad for me in that case, but i understand that ws clienst aren't that important compared to the other stuff

[bold glade]

Great idea, i'll try that out!

Thanks so much

[fickle canopy]

if you run into any trouble getting the source up to date im sure folks here would be happy to help (: and you could always PR it back when you're done ^.^

i think most of the breaks will be just some syntax stuff

[bold glade]

Alright, i will have a look at that tomorrow, thanks for the quick help, have a good one and cya 🫡

[versed rain]

We don’t have any half decent websockets libraries I’m afraid

Nerd doesn’t handle https

I personally wouldn’t want to use it

There may be an Elixir one that’s better

It’s very odd that we don’t have one to be honest

[bold glade]

No worries, i just need something to play around with stuff, i think it might work. Otherwise I'd have to have a look for ws clients from other languages, because i never so far touched Elixir or Erlang

[errant depot]

FWIW a while ago I forked nerf to add https support https://hexdocs.pm/gleam_gun/index.html but then it got out of date with the new gleam versions. Now having the same issue you do, lacking a ws client. So far I ended up adding WebSockex through elixir to my gleam project, but not very happy with this solution. Would be great to know what would you end up doing!

[versed rain]

Oooooh you made it verify tls?

[grizzled badger]

Small bump. What's my best bet if I want to use Gleam on the frontend and receive events over a websocket? The ones mentioned here seems to be focused on the server/erlang side of things?