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# Types of Nym clients
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At present, there are three 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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You need to choose which one you want incorporate into your app. Which one you use will depend largely on your preferred programming style and the purpose of your app.
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### The websocket client
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Your first option is the native websocket client (`nym-client`). 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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> Rust developers can import websocket client functionality into their code via the [Rust SDK](../sdk/rust/rust.md).
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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 webassembly client is most easily used via the [Typescript SDK](../sdk/typescript.md). Typescript developers who wish to send API requests through the mixnet can can also check the [`mixfetch`]() package.
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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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_Rust developers can import socks client functionality into their code via the [Rust SDK](../sdk/rust/rust.md)_.
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