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by devy 3682 days ago
I have been using `wscat`[1] when I was developing a WebSocket app last year. It was a nifty little tool although it would require the entire nodejs / npm stack to be able to run it. `wsta` is probably more portable as all we need is just a native binary to run.

[1]: https://www.npmjs.com/package/wscat
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esphen 3682 days ago
Yep, wscat is pretty a pretty nice tool! I used it as well, but it always bothered me that I couldn't tell it what to send to the server when running it. It's super handy to be able to file bugs with a one-liner to reproduce the bug.

That lead me to fork it and send a PR with that feature. It never got merged, so I simply created a new project, which ultimately lead to this :)

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devy 3682 days ago
Glad to hear the back story of wsta! :)
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