Introduction

Sock8 provides a fully typed realtime platform with pub/sub messaging and optional presence synchronization over WebSockets.

The Sock8 SDK is how you define, emit, and subscribe to your application’s realtime channels. It models realtime events as structured, typesafe channels, shared across server and client with full TypeScript support — without requiring any manual WebSocket management.

In Sock8, every channel is declared upfront. A channel can define:

• A typed message schema (required).
• Dynamic parameters (for user- or room-specific channels).
• Presence metadata (for tracking online users and custom presence states).

This approach treats realtime as a first-class domain model, not just as network plumbing. Realtime is statically typed, validated at runtime, and fully integrated into your application’s structure.

Design Principles

Sock8 is designed around a few key ideas:

• Typed first. All events, payloads, and parameters are typed at build time and validated at runtime.
• Declarative modeling. Channels are defined explicitly, composed hierarchically, and shared across client and server.
• Infrastructure abstraction. Sock8 handles connection, scaling, presence tracking, and delivery — you model your application logic, not the transport.

Features

• Typed channel definitions with optional parameters and presence
• End-to-end type sharing (server ↔ client)
• Runtime validation for all messages
• Presence synchronization with customizable schemas
• Next.js-first server-side authorization tooling
• No code generation or manual type syncing
• Region-aware, cloud-native backend