https://github.com/cooldogedev/spectral

Spectral is a blazingly fast and lightweight network engine built on UDP, designed for real-time, low-latency applications.
https://github.com/cooldogedev/spectral

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Spectral is a blazingly fast and lightweight network engine built on UDP, designed for real-time, low-latency applications.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/cooldogedev/spectral
• Owner: cooldogedev
• License: mit
• Created: 2024-09-06T18:26:57.000Z (almost 2 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2024-12-19T02:40:40.000Z (over 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-04T22:21:20.173Z (about 1 year ago)
• Topics: go, networking, protocol, real-time, reliability, udp
• Language: Go
• Homepage:
• Size: 91.8 KB
• Stars: 16
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Spectral

**Spectral** is a blazingly fast, lightweight, and powerful network engine designed for real-time, low-latency applications such as gaming, streaming, and other interactive services. Built on top of UDP, Spectral ensures high performance while maintaining reliability through advanced networking concepts.

## Core Concepts

- **Streams**: Spectral supports streams, enabling multiple data channels over a single connection. This allows for efficient data handling and avoids head-of-line blocking.

- **Reliability**: Despite being built on top of the connectionless UDP protocol, Spectral incorporates mechanisms for guaranteed packet delivery.

- **Stream-level Ordering**: Spectral ensures that data within a stream is delivered in the correct order, optimizing application performance where packet sequence matters.

- **Packet Pacing**: The engine manages transmission timing for efficient bandwidth use and reduced network congestion.

- **Congestion Control**: Spectral dynamically adjusts its transmission rate to adapt to varying network conditions, ensuring smooth data flow and minimal packet loss.

- **Retransmission**: Lost or dropped packets are intelligently detected and retransmitted, providing robustness in unreliable networks.

These features make Spectral ideal for scenarios requiring fast, reliable, and scalable communication.

## Examples

Explore the [example](example) directory to learn how to integrate Spectral into your project.

## Implementations

Spectral is implemented in the following languages:

- **Go**: [Spectral Go](https://github.com/cooldogedev/spectral)

- **PHP**: [Spectral PHP](https://github.com/cooldogedev/spectral-php)

Additional language implementations are under development to expand its reach across different platforms.

## Projects Using Spectral

| Project    | Description                                                                                 | Stars |

|------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|-------|

| [Spectrum](https://github.com/cooldogedev/spectrum) | A fast and lightweight proxy for Minecraft: Bedrock Edition, leveraging Spectral for enhanced performance. | [![Stars](https://img.shields.io/github/stars/cooldogedev/spectrum?style=flat-square)](https://github.com/cooldogedev/spectrum) |