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# Types of Nym clients
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At present, there are three standalone Nym clients:
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- the websocket (native) client
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- the SOCKS5 client
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- the wasm (webassembly) client
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The wasm client can be accessed most easily via the [Typescript SDK]() TODO LINK, and websocket & socks5 functionality is available for Rust, Go, and C/C++ codebases via the [Rust SDK] TODO LINK , however the standalone client binaries are built along with the rest of the codebase for those who either wish to quickly experiment, or are programming in an unsupported language.
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> For information about the role that clients play within the Nym system and their role when communicating with the Mixnet, see the [Client network docs](../network/architecture/mixnet/clients).
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### The websocket client
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This is a compiled program that can run on Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows machines. It can be run as a persistent process on a desktop or server machine. You can connect to it with **any language that supports websockets**.
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### The webassembly client
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If you're working in JavaScript or Typescript in the browser, or building an [edge computing](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_computing) app, you'll likely want to choose the webassembly client.
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It's packaged and [available on the npm registry](https://www.npmjs.com/package/@nymproject/nym-client-wasm), so you can `npm install` it into your JavaScript or TypeScript application.
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### The SOCKS5 client
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The `nym-socks5-client` is useful for allowing existing applications to use the Nym mixnet without any code changes. All that's necessary is that they can use one of the SOCKS5, SOCKS4a, or SOCKS4 proxy protocols (which many applications can - crypto wallets, browsers, chat applications etc).
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When used as a standalone client, it's less flexible as a way of writing custom applications than the other clients, but able to be used to proxy application traffic through the mixnet without having to make any code changes.
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