share-file-systems VS Nginx

Compare share-file-systems vs Nginx and see what are their differences.

share-file-systems

Use a Windows/OSX like GUI in the browser to share files cross OS privately. No cloud, no server, no third party. (by prettydiff)

Nginx

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share-file-systems

Posts with mentions or reviews of share-file-systems. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-20.
  • Lcl.host: fast, easy HTTPS in your local dev environment
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Mar 2024
    Some things I learned about trusted localhost HTTPS:

    * Windows is the easiest... by far. There is only one trust store and its extremely easy to access at different levels of trust. Firefox has its own trust store so you can either add your certs to both the Windows store AND the Firefox trust store or flip a config in Firefox to tell it to use the Windows trust store like everyone else.

    * Linux is a challenge because you have to add your certificates to the OS trust store and then each browser has their own trust stores.

    * MacOS is pretty close to impossible, at least fully automated. If the cert is not registered with a third party of the OS's choosing the cert will not be trusted in the browser. The way around this is to manually add your localhost cert chain to the MacOS keychain.

    If anybody wants an example here is something I wrote a ways back in JS (but please be warned its specific to my application:

    * Build the certificate chain - https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems/blob/master...

    * Install the cert by OS type - https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems/blob/master...

    That second sample also installs pcap so that I can serve on localhost over ports 80/443.

  • We have used too many levels of abstractions and now the future looks bleak
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 21 Oct 2023
    Some developers believe everything is always a framework or any attempt to avoid frameworks creates a new framework. I cannot help these people. Any non-religion is a cult type nonsense of affirming the consequent fallacy.

    Otherwise a valid example is this one file that creates a complete OS-like GUI in the browser awaiting content typically populated from WebSocket messaging: https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems/blob/master...

  • Os.js – open-source JavaScript web desktop platform with a window manager
    4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Aug 2023
    I wrote a similar concept around private internet access to your file system. It’s at https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems

    The window and state management can be demoed on my personal site at https://prettydiff.com

  • Ask HN: Tell us about your project that's not done yet but you want feedback on
    68 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Aug 2023
    File sharing and soon remote execution over the internet cross OS. Private and no servers.

    https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems

  • Meta Forced to Reveal Anonymous Facebook User's Identity
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Jul 2023
    Done: https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems/blob/master...

    You would need a warrant to extract the messages/identity directly from a person's computer as there is nothing otherwise to obtain.

  • More encryption means less privacy (2016)
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Jul 2023
    Perhaps this is true in the context of the web. But I got tired of watching the web as a platform continuously repeat the same mistakes so I started working on something different. In the last day or two I was finally able to functionally prove my competing idea in a way that forcefully imposes privacy with complete Zero Trust conformance.

    https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems/blob/master...

  • Bfs 3.0: The Fastest Find Yet
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Jul 2023
    I am performing a similar file system tree navigation asynchronously in Node.js which is just a shallow API over the C Linux FS APIs.

    I can see you are using opendir and closedir functions? What is the benefit from using the opendir function[1] when readdir[2] can be called on a location directly? Is the benefit that opendir returns a file descriptor for use in opening a stream to gather directory object descriptors?

    [1] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/opendir.3.html

    [2] https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/readdir.3.html

    Your project is probably more mature but if you want an alternate approach to examine here is I have been doing it: https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems/blob/master...

    I considering changing my use of readdir to use the withFileTypes option so that it returns a list of directory entries (objects of artifact name and type) instead of a list of conditions to discern types like I am doing on lines 382-432.

  • Easy HTTPS for your private networks
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jul 2023
    Solved.

    Solved for both Windows and Linux (Debian, Arch, Fedora). I might have unlikely solved this of OSX as well, but I am not buying Apply hardware just to test it.

    What my solution does is check for certificates created by the project during a build step. If the certificates don't exist it creates them, installs them in the OS, and also install them in the browser. Installation in the browsers is required in Linux and only for FireFox in Windows. These are cert chains containing a self-signed root, intermediary CA, and a local domain cert.

    I have these certs configured to work with my own domains so that I can connect to a subdomain addressed to a loopback IP and the cert recognizes that domain, but the domain "localhost" works as well. Sometimes its nice to access a real domain to avoid any restrictions imposed upon accessing address "localhost". You just have to change the domains at the bottom of your OpenSSL option files.

    Here is how I solved it with vanilla TypeScript in Node.js (also requires locally installed OpenSSL:

    * OpenSSL option file 1 - https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems/blob/master...

    * OpenSSL option file 2 - https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems/blob/master...

    * Certificate library - https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems/blob/master...

    * Certificate interface from build tool - https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems/blob/master...

    * Certificate installation - https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems/blob/master...

    If you have any questions just open a Github issue on the project.

  • Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2023)
    21 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Jun 2023
    Email: [email protected]

    15 years experience with JavaScript, 6 years experience with TypeScript. I am currently writing a Node based OS in TypeScript to solve for decentralization (not Web3): https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems

    I understand performance aggressively enough far beyond the comfort of most developers: https://github.com/prettydiff/wisdom/blob/master/performance...

  • Ask HN: Are you working on a big software project? Happy with the architecture?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 May 2023
    I started a JS based file sharing application a few years back. It started as a thought experiment of just exposing the file system to the browser in a familiar OS kind of user interface. As new features are added over time it has become more like a high level OS.

    https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems

    Some architectural decisions I made:

    * Micro-service based

    * I am now using WebSockets for all services and communication. That has proven in the application to be 7x faster than HTTP.

    * I have a universal format wrapping all service messaging, kind of like sending a letter in an envelope. This allows me to using a single service end point for all services and a single means of service monitoring.

    * I did not like the existing test automation solutions based upon CDP, because they are too slow and fragile. Also, they do not provide support for a peer-to-peer experience. So I wrote my own test automation solution for testing in the browser and its much faster and predictable.

    * I am using an identity based authentication mechanism to restrict access to known users/devices.

    * I just write to the file system instead of using a database for data storage. This allows for much faster application start up times and lowers complexity. The performance difference is insignificant after accounting for that in most cases opening a file is more costly than arbitrarily writing to the file system.

    * I figured out how to install certificates using automation in both Windows and Linux which allows me to run the application using encrypted transmission protocols (https/wss) on localhost.

Nginx

Posts with mentions or reviews of Nginx. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-24.
  • Nginx 1.26.0 Stable Released
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Apr 2024
    Yeah, unless I'm looking at it wrong, there doesn't seem to be any meaningful difference between 1.25.5 and 1.26.0:

    https://github.com/nginx/nginx/compare/release-1.25.5...rele...

  • How to securely reverse-proxy ASP.NET Core web apps
    3 projects | dev.to | 4 Apr 2024
    However, it's very unlikely that .NET developers will directly expose their Kestrel-based web apps to the internet. Typically, we use other popular web servers like Nginx, Traefik, and Caddy to act as a reverse-proxy in front of Kestrel for various reasons:
  • Ask HN: Is nginx.org (the domain-name itself) gone?
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Mar 2024
  • Freenginx: Core Nginx Developer Announces Fork of Popular Web Server
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Mar 2024
    > I actually don't understand why I am seeing arguments like this all the time.

    Have a look at:

    https://github.com/nginx/nginx/blob/master/src/http/modules/...

    It's got the whole checklist: nginx idiosyncratic module system, inline parsing, custom utf conversion, buffer preallocation and adjustments, linked lists, comments about side effects of custom allocator, and probably other things.

    It's not easy to deal with source like that and any serious improvement to that area would effectively be a rewrite anyway.

    Since anything doing work in nginx is a module anyway, it wouldn't even have to be a full rewrite in one go.

  • The Internet is Maintained by 1 Software Developer
    1 project | dev.to | 25 Feb 2024
    According to this article, nGinx is being used to serve 34% of all websites in the world. I checked out who's contributing to nGinx, and just like I thought, the project has 8,208 commits, and 5,366 of those commits was made by 2 software developers; igorsoev and mdounin.
  • [06/52] Accessible Kubernetes with Terraform and DigitalOcean
    4 projects | dev.to | 23 Feb 2024
  • Freenginx.org
    11 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Feb 2024
  • Performance benchmark of PHP runtimes
    7 projects | dev.to | 17 Jan 2024
    Nginx + Roadrunner (fcgi mode)
  • Web CGI programs aren't particularly slow these days
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jan 2024
    Apache’s mod_fastcgi’s last commit was 2 weeks ago:

    https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/httpd/httpd/trunk/

    It’s a fork of what you linked (and was more popular afaik back when fastcgi was state of the art, and apache was the undisputed champion of web servers).

    These days, nginx has more market share than apache, and its fastcgi module is one of the more recently updated ones in its source tree (5 months vs multiple years):

    https://github.com/nginx/nginx/tree/master/src/http/modules

    If I was going to build an embedded web server, I’d start with nostd rust, probably with though axum + tokio, since thats already memory safe-ish.

    If I needed fastcgi for some reason (dynamically loadable endpoints, or os-level isolation), there are at least four implementations of fastcgi for it. No idea if any are decent though.

  • Five Apache projects you probably didn't know about
    8 projects | dev.to | 21 Dec 2023
    APISIX is an API Gateway. It builds upon OpenResty, a Lua layer built on top of the famous nginx reverse-proxy. APISIX adds abstractions to the mix, e.g., Route, Service, Upstream, and offers a plugin-based architecture.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing share-file-systems and Nginx you can also consider the following projects:

DsHidMini - Virtual HID Mini-user-mode-driver for Sony DualShock 3 Controllers

Caddy - Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS

Redis - Redis is an in-memory database that persists on disk. The data model is key-value, but many different kind of values are supported: Strings, Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets, Hashes, Streams, HyperLogLogs, Bitmaps.

envoy - Cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy

Clendar - Clendar - Minimal Calendar app. Written in SwiftUI.

Squid - Squid Web Proxy Cache

userbase - Create secure and private web apps using only static JavaScript, HTML, and CSS.

nestjs-monorepo-microservices-proxy - Example of how to implement a Nestjs monorepo with no shared folder

circles-ios - E2E encrypted social networking built on Matrix. Safe, private sharing for your friends, family, and community.

Hiawatha - Hiawatha is an open source webserver with security, easy to use and lightweight as the three key features. Hiawatha supports among others (Fast)CGI, IPv6, URL rewriting and reverse proxy. It has security features no other webserver has, like blocking SQL injections, XSS and CSRF attacks and exploit attempts. The built-in monitoring tool makes it perfect for large scale deployments.

PhotoPrism - AI-Powered Photos App for the Decentralized Web 🌈💎✨

YARP - A toolkit for developing high-performance HTTP reverse proxy applications.