Pusher Channels
JavaScript library for real-time messaging and WebSocket communication.
HTTP clients and networking npm MIT
Used in agent projects
35
0.3% of 12,697 public repos built with AI coding agents
Rank in http clients and networking
#23 of 29
by use in those projects
Downloads
3.1M
npm, last 7 days, pusher-js
GitHub stars
2,223
last push Oct 2, 2026
How Pusher Channels is used
Pusher Channels is a dependency in 35 of the 12,697 public GitHub projects set up for AI coding agents that we scanned (0.3%), #23 of 29 in http clients and networking. The most used alternative there is Axios. Projects that use it most often also use Laravel Echo (74.3%), Laravel Vite Plugin (71.4%), Tailwind CSS (94.3%). It is more common in projects set up for Junie (8.2%) than for GitHub Copilot (0.6%).
Often used with Pusher Channels
| Laravel Echo | 74.3% of Pusher Channels projects · 362.8× more than average |
|---|---|
| Laravel Vite Plugin | 71.4% of Pusher Channels projects · 51.0× more than average |
| Tailwind CSS | 94.3% of Pusher Channels projects · 2.7× more than average |
| Vite | 71.4% of Pusher Channels projects · 3.1× more than average |
| concurrently | 51.4% of Pusher Channels projects · 11.4× more than average |
| Axios | 48.6% of Pusher Channels projects · 4.9× more than average |
| Vue | 31.4% of Pusher Channels projects · 19.0× more than average |
| Tailwind Merge | 45.7% of Pusher Channels projects · 2.7× more than average |
By coding agent
| Cursor | 1.0% of projects set up for it |
|---|---|
| Claude Code | 0.7% of projects set up for it |
| GitHub Copilot | 0.6% of projects set up for it |
| OpenCode | 3.1% of projects set up for it |
| Gemini CLI | 2.1% of projects set up for it |
| Junie | 8.2% of projects set up for it |
| OpenAI Codex | 1.3% of projects set up for it |
Share of public repos configured for each agent that list Pusher Channels as a dependency.
Install
| Package | npm install pusher-js |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | PHP (26), Next.js (7), React Native / Expo (1), TypeScript / JavaScript (1) |
| Example projects | trypostit/trypost, EricTechPro/match-me, cablelabs/os-provisioning, mchev/blinest, Mebius1916/NextTalk_web |
Alternatives to Pusher Channels
| Tool | Used in agent projects | Downloads / wk | GitHub stars | License |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Axios npm Promise-based HTTP client for browser and Node.js with interceptors. |
1,264 (10.0%) | 115M | 109K | MIT |
| Requests pypi Elegant Python HTTP library for making web requests. |
675 (5.3%) | 309M | 54.6K | Apache-2.0 |
| aiohttp pypi Async HTTP client/server framework for Python with WebSocket support. |
295 (2.3%) | 117M | 16.6K | — |
| ws npm Simple, fast WebSocket client and server for Node.js with full RFC support. |
287 (2.3%) | 283M | 22.8K | MIT |
| websockets pypi WebSocket implementation for Python with RFC 6455 and 7692 compliance. |
286 (2.3%) | 109M | 5,732 | — |
| httpx pypi Modern Python HTTP client with async support, replacing the standard requests library. |
266 (2.1%) | 16M | 15.6K | BSD-3-Clause |
| node-fetch npm Bring the Fetch API to Node.js for making HTTP requests. |
219 (1.7%) | 207M | 8,852 | MIT |
| urllib3 pypi HTTP client with thread-safe connection pooling, file uploads and advanced features. |
193 (1.5%) | 338M | 4,071 | — |