Features

MagicOnion has the following features:

• Unified development experience with less friction
  • Unified service definition using .NET / C# types and transparent proxy generation
• RPC-style API services
• Real-time communication
  • Real-time notifications from the server to the client
  • Simultaneous calls to multiple clients
  • Disconnection detection by heartbeat
  • Calls to multiple clients using Redis/NATS
• Ecosystem
  • Supports .NET and Unity as clients
  • Built on ASP.NET Core as a server, leveraging the .NET ecosystem
  • Efficient communication and interoperability based on gRPC over HTTP/2
  • Efficient binary serialization using MessagePack
    • Provides extension points for serialization
• Open-source library licensed under the MIT license