How y-websocket is used
y-websocket joined the catalog on its public numbers (526,443 downloads a week on npm and 714 GitHub stars), not on our project count: it is a dependency in 10 public GitHub projects of our scan, 6 of them set up for AI coding agents. Projects that use it most often also use Yjs (90.0%), React Icons (80.0%), Class Variance Authority (70.0%).
y-websocket popularity over time
Gid Score 35: downloads 58, use in agent projects 17, GitHub stars 6, downloads trend 60 (each 0-100). How it is calculated.
Often used with y-websocket
| Yjs | 90.0% of y-websocket projects · 372.5× more than average |
|---|---|
| React Icons | 80.0% of y-websocket projects · 28.7× more than average |
| Class Variance Authority | 70.0% of y-websocket projects · 4.3× more than average |
| Next.js | 70.0% of y-websocket projects · 3.9× more than average |
| Tailwind Merge | 70.0% of y-websocket projects · 3.7× more than average |
| clsx | 70.0% of y-websocket projects · 3.6× more than average |
| React | 90.0% of y-websocket projects · 2.8× more than average |
| Lucide React | 70.0% of y-websocket projects · 3.5× more than average |
How y-websocket is funded
Open Collective: Y-Collective
| Received, last 12 months | $40 Oct 2025 – Sep 2026 |
|---|---|
| Estimated annual budget | $60 Open Collective's estimate |
| Balance | $642 |
| Raised since the start | $136,460 · $135,817 paid out |
| Typical month median, last 12 months | $4 · $4 over 24 months |
| Last 12 months vs the 12 before | -74% |
| Contributors, last 12 months | 1 |
Top company backers all time, 14 companies in total
| Ably Realtime | $85,000 since Jun 2021 |
|---|---|
| Cargo | $12,000 since May 2021 |
| Saga | $12,000 since May 2021 |
| Complish | $9,000 since May 2021 |
| Gamma | $6,000 since Jul 2021 |
Oct 2021Sep 2026
Money by month, last five years. First money received in Apr 2021. The typical month is the median: one big one-off donation does not move it.
The same collective is named by 2 more tools in our catalog: Yjs, y-prosemirror.
USD after payment processor fees, as Open Collective reports it; fiscal host Open Source Collective. Source
GitHub Sponsors
| @dmonad | 39 current sponsors |
|---|
GitHub shows how many people and companies sponsor an account, not how much they pay. Sponsors of a person back all of their work, which here includes Yjs, y-prosemirror.
Ways to fund y-websocket
GitHub Sponsors Open Collective
As the maintainers list them in FUNDING.yml on GitHub. Checked Oct 20, 2026.
Install
| Package | npm install y-websocket |
|---|---|
| Main stacks | Next.js (7), TypeScript / JavaScript (3) |
| Example projects | ArhanAnsari/edusync |
Alternatives to y-websocket
In our scan, none of the most used tools in State and data fetching does the same job as y-websocket: they are add-ons, companions or tools for a different task.
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