Cannot use 'uws', because it's been abandoned

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Current behaviour

For Nodejs 8.x and 9.x (with uws = 8.x) works properly.

For Nodejs 10.x + uws (>= 8.x <= 9.x)： it throws an error saying "Error: Compilation of µWebSockets has failed and there is no pre-compiled binary available for your system. Please install a supported C++11 compiler and reinstall the module 'uws'".

For Nodejs 10.x + uws (>=10.x)：cannot find module 'uws'.

Steps to reproduce (if the current behaviour is a bug)

Just assign 'uws' to wsEngine, each time I'll remove all the imports by directly removing node_modules and install them by running npm i. Then my uws is installed in the mode of dev-dependencies.

Expected behaviour

Works properly like Node 8 or 9.

Setup

• OS: Windows 8.1 (SP1), Linux (x64
• browser: N/A
• socket.io version: 2.0.4

Other Info

I found uws is deprecated now, so in the main page of Socket.IO SHOULD'T SUPPORT THAT any more (See https://socket.io/docs/server-api/ part). And maybe there's something code to be changed with, or change to a new lib something like uws.

See the DUPLICATED uws: https://www.npmjs.com/package/uws, the version is changing TOO RAPIDLY, not so stable.

Maybe the logic as well as socketio should be modified？
(See codes at:

engine.io/lib/server.js

Line 107 in 6a16ea1

case 'uws': wsModule = require('uws'); break;

).

In my test, it seems ONLY 10.148.0 (uws) works on me without any other configs, leave it here for others if they need help

BTW：Will this be a hole in the future?!

[kkomelin]

Here is more info about what happened with uws https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/91kgte/uws_has_been_deprecated/

Thanks @kkomelin

[slartibardfast]

hi, a fork / continuation is available, it even has a typescript based js component

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@clusterws/uws
https://github.com/ClusterWS/uWS

might be worth considering a switch?

Thanks @slartibardfast

Has someone tested it with engine.io? https://www.npmjs.com/package/@clusterws/cws

[StefansArya]

Maybe uws was deprecated because uWebSockets.js was released..

[DarkGhostHunter]

Maybe uws was deprecated because uWebSockets.js was released..

No..

[StefansArya]

No..

Ok, I will change my comment..
Maybe we can use the official version of uWebSockets.js instead of the deprecated uws library..

[DarkGhostHunter]

We should use cWS instead of uWS. Who knows if the author gets another tantrum and deletes the project itself. El lun., 11 de feb. de 2019 22:19, StefansArya <notifications@github.com> escribió:

…

No. <https://www.reddit.com/r/node/comments/91kgte/uws_has_been_deprecated/>. Ok, I will change my comment.. Maybe we can use the official version of uWebSockets.js <https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js> instead of the deprecated uws library.. — You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#560 (comment)>, or mute the thread <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AE51lwYoiFZEHBhGu9jSdRBUElW_bYctks5vMhaFgaJpZM4WgpsF> .

[shirtleton]

uWS has not been abandoned. The maintainer created a new repo. https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js

[stefanovualto]

uWS has not been abandoned. The maintainer created a new repo. https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js

Does that means that we can use uWebSockets.js as wsEngine into the server configuration?

@stefanovualto unfortunatelly not yet, uWebSocket.js has different structure.