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cosmopolite

See https://www.cosmopolite.org/ for tutorial, reference, etc.

Client/server publish/subscribe and key/value storage for AppEngine.

Components:

  • A server API built on the AppEngine Python framework.
  • A browser client library written in JavaScript.

Feature overview:

  • Near-realtime notification to subscribers of messages published to a "subject"
  • Server-side storage of past messages for replay later to clients
  • Support for associating a key with a message and for lookup of the most recent message for a given key
  • Client identification persistence via localStorage tokens or in combination with Google account signin
  • Complex messages supported via transparent JSON serialization
  • Server-side strict ordering of messages
  • Client-side message queueing in localStorage and resumption on restart
  • Message duplication detection and elimination
  • Promise support for notification of client -> server operation completion