Is it possible for MacOS App to act as web socket server?

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Created Jul ’22

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I use to develop for IOS and currently handling MacOS development for the first time. I use websocket in my app before acting as clients. However, I never had to make a websocket server using swift.

I was wondering if it is possible to let my Mac App to act as a web socket server to receive informations from web socket clients? I have been trying to find resources, but most of them are about making clients instead of server. I would appreciate any help on finding resources to help me build this feature.

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mikeyh OP

Jul ’22

Have you looked at SwiftNIO?

https://github.com/apple/swift-nio/tree/main/Sources/NIOWebSocketServer

Or if macOS only are your looking at the Network framework and NWProtocolWebSocket?

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/network

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mikeyh OP

Jul ’22

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thank you I will look at these

Network framework is covered in the following WWDC sessions (which I'm rewatching as about to start work on the network server part of an app):

Introducing Network.framework: A modern alternative to Sockets: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2018/715/
Advances in Networking, Part 1: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/712/ (introduces NWProtocolWebSocket)
Advances in Networking, Part 2: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2019/713/ (introduces NWProtocolWebSocket)
Boost performance and security with modern networking: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10111
Accelerate networking with HTTP/3 and QUIC: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10094
Build device-to-device interactions with Network Framework: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/110339/

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