dat vs js-git

dat

:floppy_disk: peer-to-peer sharing & live syncronization of files via command line [ DEPRECATED - More info on active projects and modules at https://dat-ecosystem.org/ ] (by dat-ecosystem-archive)

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js-git

A JavaScript implementation of Git. (by creationix)

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dat		js-git
	Project
4	Mentions	3
8,258	Stars	3,826
-	Growth	-
2.3	Activity	0.0
over 2 years ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	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.

dat

Posts with mentions or reviews of dat. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-11.

DoltLab v0.2.0
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Feb 2022

I'm surprised you didn't include things like `dat`[0]
[0] https://github.com/dat-ecosystem-archive/dat
Release: Nano Multisig is finally here enabling ultra-secure funding!
2 projects | /r/nanocurrency | 26 Mar 2021

Gun is an opinionated high level and complete solution, it may provide more than what you need. I would think a more modular alternative is suitable, something like using libp2p. Anyway, you should take a look at the dat ecosystem and the ipfs ecosystem. Also, a really neat and clever way to simply do distributed peer discovery, removing the need for a signalling server, is bitboot (it uses mainline DHT).
Does holochain have any competition
2 projects | /r/holochain | 24 Mar 2021

Dat/Hypercore lets people share data with others, and you can build applications on top of it

js-git

Posts with mentions or reviews of js-git. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-20.

[media] Gitoxide celebrating 100k lines of Rust code 🎉
4 projects | /r/rust | 20 Sep 2022

js-git is dormant but used by 30k+ projects, apparently, and is somewhat of a special case I think. It's niche but seems to fulfill it's intended purpose.
Node.js Packages and Resources
106 projects | dev.to | 6 Sep 2021

js-git - JavaScript implementation of Git.
Gitlet.js – Git implemented in 1k lines of JavaScript
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Apr 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing dat and js-git you can also consider the following projects:

ipfs - IPFS implementation in JavaScript

Bitcoin - Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree

PDFKit - A JavaScript PDF generation library for Node and the browser

webtorrent - ⚡️ Streaming torrent client for the web

turf - A modular geospatial engine written in JavaScript and TypeScript

isomorphic-git - A pure JavaScript implementation of git for node and browsers!

BitcoinJS - A javascript Bitcoin library for node.js and browsers.

skale - High performance distributed data processing engine

GitTorrent - A decentralization of GitHub using BitTorrent and Bitcoin

peerflix - Streaming torrent client for node.js

webcat - Mad science p2p pipe across the web using webrtc that uses your Github private/public key for authentication and a signalhub for discovery