What is socket.io built with?
socket.io is a TypeScript repo built with Express. It signs people in with express-session and helmet and is tested with expect.js, @wdio/cli, and supertest. It has 55,763 written lines, with 112 test files.
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Backend
Support
Testing 3
- @wdio/cli1 file
- expect.js51 files
- supertest2 files
Tools 2
rollup5 files
- tsd2 files
Other 10
@msgpack/msgpack3 files
node-forge2 files
@socket.io/redis-streams-adapter1 file
- debug34 files
- ws6 files
- superagent5 files
- accepts3 files
- cookie2 files
- cors2 files
- socket.io-client-v21 file
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