bee VS swarm-extension

Compare bee vs swarm-extension and see what are their differences.

bee

Bee is a Swarm client implemented in Go. It’s the basic building block for the Swarm network: a private; decentralized; and self-sustaining network for permissionless publishing and access to your (application) data. (by ethersphere)

swarm-extension

PoC for Swarm Browser Extension (by ethersphere)
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bee swarm-extension
44 3
1,436 14
0.5% -
9.4 0.0
8 days ago about 1 year ago
Go TypeScript
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License -
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bee

Posts with mentions or reviews of bee. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-25.

swarm-extension

Posts with mentions or reviews of swarm-extension. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-05-12.
  • New and improved Bee UX coming Q2
    4 projects | /r/ethswarm | 12 May 2022
    There are already several Swarm working tools available that make it possible to monitor and interact with a Bee node, but they are at varying stages of being documented. Currently available are the Dashboard for UI control, the CLI tool and the browser extension. There is also the Bee API and a complementary Javascript library to provide easy access to the API.
  • Development Update — December 2021 & January 2022
    7 projects | /r/ethswarm | 9 Feb 2022
    4. Released a new version of the experimental Swarm Extension, the latest is v0.3.0
  • Monthly Development Update — March 2021
    9 projects | /r/ethswarm | 9 Apr 2021
    Started working on a Browser Extension. Right now, it is a proof-of-concept tool to help us figure out a good model for creating and using decentralized applications in a browser.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing bee and swarm-extension you can also consider the following projects:

gateway-proxy - Proxy service for the Bee client

bee-js - Javascript client library for connecting to Bee decentralised storage

ipfs - Peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol

helm - Ethersphere Helm Charts

Rabby - The game-changing wallet for Ethereum and all EVM chains

beekeeper - Swarm Beekeeper is an orchestrator that can manage a cluster of Bee nodes and call into their API. It allows various scenario’s to be performed on these nodes. The Swarm team uses Beekeeper internally for integration tests.

gateway-ui - Swarm Gateway website

arweave - The Arweave server and App Developer Toolkit.

swarm-cli - Manage your Bee node and interact with the Swarm network via the CLI

exportSwarmKey - Export the private key from a Swarm json key file