acmez vs node-acme-client

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acmez		node-acme-client
	Project
4	Mentions	1
248	Stars	243
-	Growth	4.1%
6.7	Activity	8.0
4 days ago	Latest Commit	3 months ago
Go	Language	JavaScript
Apache License 2.0	License	MIT License

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

acmez

Posts with mentions or reviews of acmez. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-10-10.

Autostrada: A codebase generator for new Go projects
5 projects | /r/golang | 10 Oct 2022

CertMagic uses https://github.com/mholt/acmez because lego has significant problems that made it inflexible and unreliable for use in Caddy. See the History section on that repo for an explanation.
Show HN: Caddy v2.5.0
13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 26 Apr 2022

Because Lego maintainers wouldn't budge when Caddy needed changes made to increase ACME reliability. Matt wrote his own implementation https://github.com/mholt/acmez and started using that in Caddy soon after. There's a deeper explanation here: https://github.com/caddyserver/certmagic/issues/71
Any "simple" projects with particularly well-written and/or well-documented code for a beginner to look through?
11 projects | /r/golang | 6 Oct 2021

I am really proud of how elegant and well-documented ACMEz is: https://github.com/mholt/acmez
acmez 1.0: Premier ACME client library for Go
1 project | /r/golang | 25 Aug 2021

node-acme-client

Posts with mentions or reviews of node-acme-client. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

Week 3, Let's encrypt
1 project | dev.to | 4 Feb 2023

This week I have dug a little deeper in the let's encrypt and node-acme-client.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing acmez and node-acme-client you can also consider the following projects:

boulder - An ACME-based certificate authority, written in Go.

acme.sh - A pure Unix shell script implementing ACME client protocol [Moved to: https://github.com/acmesh-official/acme.sh]

caddy-json-schema - JSON schema generator for Caddy v2

lego - Let's Encrypt/ACME client and library written in Go

lorelai - ✍ Generate Lorem Ipsum like a pro

acme.sh - A pure Unix shell script implementing ACME client protocol

chigo - 🌈 Lolcat in Go: Rainbows and Unicorns!

certify - Professional ACME Client for Windows. Certificate Management UI, powered by Let's Encrypt and compatible with all ACME v2 CAs. Download from certifytheweb.com

certmagic - Automatic HTTPS for any Go program: fully-managed TLS certificate issuance and renewal

beep - A little package that brings sound to any Go application. Suitable for playback and audio-processing.