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This list is a copy of Kikobeats/awesome-network-js with ranks

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Awesome JavaScript Network ★385

A 🎩 list of network layer resources written pure JS.

High level

Based, at least, in a CLI interface.

• airpaste ★738 ⏳3Y – 1-1 network pipe that auto discovers other peers using mdns.
• blecat ★95 ⏳3Y – 1-1 pipe over bluetooth low energy.
• deejay ★107 ⏳2Y – Music player that broadcasts to everyone on the same network.
• dhtkv ★53 ⏳2Y – CLI for storing arbitrary key/value data in the bittorrent mainline DHT.
• gun ★8300 – A realtime, decentralized, offline-first, graph database engine.
• hyperpipe ★107 – Distributed input/output pipe.
• hypervision ★348 – P2P Television.
• instant.io ★1921 – Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent.
• ipp-printer ★327 – Create a printer on your network.
• peercast ★382 – Like peerflix but for Chromecast.
• peerflix ★4801 – Streaming torrent client.
• peervisionary ★40 ⏳2Y – Stream p2p content over your local network.
• peerwiki ★276 – browse all of wikipedia using bittorrent.
• screencat ★2159 ⏳2Y – WebRTC screensharing app.
• signalhub ★401 – Simple signalling server that can be used to coordinate handshaking with webrtc or other fun stuff.
• torrent-mount ★1130 ⏳3Y – Mount a torrent (or magnet link) as a filesystem in real time using torrent-stream and fuse.
• webcat ★373 ⏳1Y – pipe across the web using WebRTC.
• websocketd ★9573 – Turn any program that uses stdin/stdout into a WebSocket server.
• webtorrent ★17074 – BitTorrent over WebRTC.
• wifi-triangulate ★58 ⏳2Y – Finds your current position on planet earth using the wifi access point.

Modules

Do one thing well.

• airplay-server ★215 ⏳1Y – A low level AirPlay server.
• castnow ★84 – simple chromecast player.
• discovery-swarm – A network swarm that uses discovery-channel to find peers. Also check webrtc-swarm ★232.
• dns-packet – Abstract-encoding compliant module for encoding / decoding DNS packets. Also see dns-socket ★64.
• etcdjs ★56 ⏳1Y – Low level etcd v2 client written in Javascript with failover support.
• geocode-wifi ★25 ⏳3Y – Get yours latitude/longitude based on your wifi access point.
• hash-to-port ★25 ⏳2Y – Hash a value to a valid port.
• hyperdb ★488 – Distributed scalable database.
• ip-packet ★26 ⏳2Y – Encode/decode raw ip packets.
• magnet-uri ★124 – Parse a magnet URI and return an object of keys/values.
• network-address ★55 ⏳1Y – Get the local network address of your machine.
• network-simulator ★37 ⏳2Y – Simulate a low-level computer network.
• rtsp-stream ★54 ⏳2Y - A transport agnostic RTSP serial multiplexer module for Node.
• simple-peer ★1959 – Simple WebRTC video/voice and data channels.
• simple-websocket ★79 – Simple, EventEmitter API for WebSockets.
• torrent-discovery ★104 – Discover BitTorrent and WebTorrent peers.
• torrent-stream ★1522 – The low level streaming torrent engine that peerflix uses.
• udp-packet ★34 ⏳2Y – Encode/decode raw udp packets.

Protocols

Implementation of protocols specs in pure javascript.

• airswarm ★110 ⏳2Y – Network swarm that automagically discovers other peers on the network using multicast dns.
• bittorrent-dht ★719 – BitTorrent DHT protocol implementation.
• bittorrent-protocol ★193 – BitTorrent peer wire protocol implementation.
• bittorrent-tracker ★657 – BitTorrent tracker (client & server) implementation
• bonjour ★304 – A Bonjour/Zeroconf protocol implementation.
• castv2 ★431 – An implementation of the Chromecast CASTV2 protocol.
• dht-rpc ★52 – Make RPC calls over a Kademlia based DHT.
• dns-discovery ★149 – Discovery peers in a distributed system using regular dns and multicast dns.
• hypercore ★767 – A p2p network for distributing and replicating static feeds of binary data.
• ipfs ★606 – The InterPlanetary File System, a new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol.
• k-bucket ★106 – Kademlia DHT K-bucket implementation as a binary tree.
• k-rpc – Implementation of the k-rpc protocol used the BitTorrent DHT. Also see k-rpc-socket ★17.
• mdns ★687 – mdns/zeroconf/bonjour service discovery.
• multicast-dns ★244 – Low level multicast-dns implementation.
• peervision ★89 ⏳2Y – Live p2p streaming protocol.
• polo ★231 ⏳3Y – A zero configuration service discovery module.
• rtsp-server ★20 ⏳2Y – A low level module for creating RTSP servers.

• utp-native ★65 – micro transport protocol, a network protocol similar to tcp that runs on top of udp.

This list is a copy of Kikobeats/awesome-network-js with ranks