isomorphic-git vs js-git

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isomorphic-git		js-git
	Project
18	Mentions	3
7,243	Stars	3,826
0.6%	Growth	-
7.0	Activity	0.0
3 days ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
JavaScript	Language	JavaScript
MIT 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.

isomorphic-git

Posts with mentions or reviews of isomorphic-git. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-13.

Tree-shaking, the horticulturally misguided algorithm
6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Apr 2024

A microcosm of the wasm issue was captured in this thread about implementing a web based git in JavaScript from scratch vs. compiling libgit
https://github.com/isomorphic-git/isomorphic-git/issues/268
The theory versus the practice of “static websites”
13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Jul 2023

I think one big missing part still with static sites is how you host the CMS to edit it.
Correct me if I'm wrong but Decap CMS (previously Netlify CMS) runs in the browser and makes reads/edits via GitHub which can then trigger rebuilds and deploys, but it still needs a small server/proxy I think because CORS stops your browser communicating directly with the GitHub API. Netlify hosts a GitHub backend that proxies requests for you but now you're tied to Netlify.
GitLab and BitBucket will have the same issue I think: https://github.com/isomorphic-git/isomorphic-git#cors-suppor...
Is there a simple solution here with minimal configuration?
i tried to push the changes to the remote repository but it gives an error. i can push in termux but in obsidian, it gives this error. does anyone know how to fix this?
1 project | /r/ObsidianMD | 23 Feb 2023

ssh isn't supported on mobile for technical reasons
I'm at my wits end trying to think of a master's thesis. Begging for advice at this point.
1 project | /r/ADHD_Programmers | 19 Dec 2022
Ask HN: Apps that are built with Git as the back end?
17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Oct 2022
Nextjs and git
3 projects | dev.to | 18 Sep 2022

This article is an attempt to classify knowledge about using git in a nodejs environment. Particularly, this is going to tell about isomorphic-git library and how to implement it in web applications.
Trying to clone a repository & send it to the frontend with Node & Express
2 projects | /r/node | 21 Jul 2022

I recently had to implement git cloning into a full stack project and I found a very useful library OP can use. isomorphic-git which would solve this issue and allow them to clone into a virtual filesystem which can help save speed, storage, and possibly keep it secure. Plus if the memfs package is used the OP can just dumb the JSON of the Volume object into the request.
Show HN: I Fixed Journaling for Myself
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jul 2022
Open source ‘protestware’ harms Open Source
5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Mar 2022
5 Insane Features in my OS in the Browser!!! 🤯
11 projects | dev.to | 30 Jan 2022

I always wanted to make a command line interface/prompt but didn't actually start it till a few months ago. I decided to go with Xterm.js for the basic terminal interface along with a modified local-echo to add basic required functionality. Then I set about duplicating every command I could find. I was able to link the terminal directly to the file system so all commands show real information. You can run help to view all commands/aliases. I've also included things such as Git, Python & Wapm.io support.

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 isomorphic-git and js-git you can also consider the following projects:

stackgl - A node.js-style module system for GLSL! :sparkles:

Bitcoin - Bitcoin Core integration/staging tree

bpmn-js - A BPMN 2.0 rendering toolkit and web modeler.

ipfs - IPFS implementation in JavaScript

webtorrent - ⚡️ Streaming torrent client for the web

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

turf - A modular geospatial engine written in JavaScript and TypeScript

Brain.js - 🤖 GPU accelerated Neural networks in JavaScript for Browsers and Node.js

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/ ]

peerflix - Streaming torrent client for node.js