Cannot use 'uws', because it's been abandoned

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Current behaviour

For Nodejs 8.x and 9.x (with uws = 8.x) works properly.

For Nodejs 10.x + uws (>= 8.x <= 9.x)： it throws an error saying “Error: Compilation of µWebSockets has failed and there is no pre-compiled binary available for your system. Please install a supported C++11 compiler and reinstall the module ‘uws’”.

For Nodejs 10.x + uws (>=10.x)：cannot find module ‘uws’.

Steps to reproduce (if the current behaviour is a bug)

Just assign ‘uws’ to wsEngine, each time I’ll remove all the imports by directly removing node_modules and install them by running npm i. Then my uws is installed in the mode of dev-dependencies.

Expected behaviour

Works properly like Node 8 or 9.

Setup

• OS: Windows 8.1 (SP1), Linux (x64
• browser: N/A
• socket.io version: 2.0.4

Other Info

I found uws is deprecated now, so in the main page of Socket.IO SHOULD’T SUPPORT THAT any more (See https://socket.io/docs/server-api/ part). And maybe there’s something code to be changed with, or change to a new lib something like uws.

See the DUPLICATED uws: https://www.npmjs.com/package/uws, the version is changing TOO RAPIDLY, not so stable.

Maybe the logic as well as socketio should be modified？ (See codes at: https://github.com/socketio/engine.io/blob/6a16ea119280a02029618544d44eb515f7f2d076/lib/server.js#L107).

[shirtleton]

uWS has not been abandoned. The maintainer created a new repo. https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js

[mmdevries]

@stefanovualto I’m not sure if this solves your issue but we have created a new package based on the original uws merged with some fixes from cws. The new package should be compatible with node 10 and 12. https://github.com/mmdevries/uws