websocket

This repository, gofiber/websocket, is a package that adds WebSocket support to web applications built with the Fiber framework. WebSockets are a technology that lets a server and a user's browser maintain an open, two-way connection. This is what makes real-time features possible, like live chat, multiplayer game updates, or instant notifications, where information needs to flow back and forth without the user constantly refreshing the page.

Normally, the web works through a series of separate requests — a user asks for a page, the server sends it, and the connection closes. WebSockets skip that cycle by keeping the connection open so the server can push new information to the user the moment it happens. This particular package was designed to make that technology easy to plug into apps using Fiber, a popular tool for building web services in the Go programming language.

The people who would use this are developers building real-time features into a Fiber-based application. For example, a startup building a live customer support chat widget, a team creating a dashboard that updates stock prices instantly, or anyone making a collaborative tool would rely on this kind of underlying connection.

The important thing to know is that this repository is deprecated, meaning it is no longer maintained or updated. The functionality still exists, but it has been moved into a central community collection called Fiber Contrib. Anyone starting a new project should use the version located there instead, as that is where active development and fixes now happen.