AnyCable WebSocket Server

A real-time server component of AnyCable (open-source edition). Check out also our Pro and managed offerings.

Note

You can find all the necessary information about AnyCable in our documentation: docs.anycable.io.

Installation

There are several ways to install AnyCable server:

• On MacOS, you can install AnyCable via Homebrew:

  brew install anycable-go

• Docker images are available on Docker Hub.

• For Rails projects, we recommend using our bin/rails g anycable:bin installer for local development.

• For JavaScript projects, we recommend installing AnyCable via NPM:

  npm install --save-dev @anycable/anycable-go
  pnpm install --save-dev @anycable/anycable-go
  yarn add --dev @anycable/anycable-go
  
  # and run as follows
  npx anycable-go

• You can use heroku-anycable-go buildpack for Heroku deployments.

• Arch Linux users can install anycable-go package from AUR.

• Or you can download a binary from the releases page:

  # Example for `anycable-go-linux-amd64`
  curl -fsSL https://github.com/anycable/anycable-go/releases/latest/download/anycable-go-linux-amd64 -o anycable-go
  chmod +x anycable-go
  ./anycable-go -v

• Of course, you can install it from source too:

  go install github.com/anycable/anycable-go/cmd/anycable-go@latest

Usage

Run server:

$ anycable-go

2024-10-09 11:00:01.402 INF Starting AnyCable 1.5.3-f39ff3f (pid: 85844, open file limit: 122880, gomaxprocs: 8) nodeid=E4eFyM

For more information about available options run anycable-go -h or check out the documentation.

Build

# first, prepare mruby (we embed it by default)
# NOTE: Might require running with sudo, since we build artifacts within a Go module
make prepare-mruby

# then build the Go binary (will be available in dist/anycable-go)
make

You can run tests with the following commands:

# Run Golang unit tests
make test

# Run once
make prepare

# Run integrations tests
make test-conformance

# Run integration benchmarks
go install github.com/anycable/websocket-bench@latest
make benchmarks

We use golangci-lint to lint Go source code:

make lint

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/anycable/anycable-go.

Please, provide reproduction script (using this template) when submitting bugs if possible.

License

The library is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Security Contact

To report a security vulnerability, please contact us at [email protected]. We will coordinate the fix and disclosure.