"real-time apps at scale" and socket.io ? I don't think so. If you want to compare socket.io with something that works on scale look at uWebSockets[1] which is

"real-time apps at scale" and socket.io ? I don't think so. If you want to compare socket.io with something that works on scale look at uWebSockets[1] which is around 50 times faster and lightweight than socket.io is. https://github.com/uWebSockets/uWebSockets https://github.com/uWebSockets/uWebSockets