Bone.io is a real-time web framework that streamlines building event-driven apps over WebSockets, pairing a Node.js server with a lightweight client library. It organizes communication into channels and events, so the server can push data to the browser and the browser can send commands back without boilerplate. The framework focuses on mapping server-side logic to UI updates directly, which makes patterns like live dashboards, chat, and collaborative editing easier to implement. Abstracting transport details, it lets developers concentrate on domain messages and state transitions rather than wiring up socket handlers repeatedly. The client side integrates cleanly with common frontend architectures, enabling incremental adoption in existing projects. Overall, bone.io targets teams who want a minimal, understandable real-time layer that keeps codebases small while still supporting rich, low-latency interactions.
Features
- Real-time communications over WebSocket / evented channels
- Lightweight framework geared toward single page applications (SPAs)
- Built in support for message routing / event dispatching
- Client + server components to unify real-time logic
- Modular / pluggable architecture for integrating with UI frameworks
- JavaScript / CoffeeScript implementation available via npm (package bone.io)