swarm-desktop vs fdp-storage

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swarm-desktop		fdp-storage
	Project
3	Mentions	2
23	Stars	9
-	Growth	-
7.3	Activity	7.6
27 days ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
JavaScript	Language	TypeScript
BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License	License	Apache License 2.0

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.

swarm-desktop

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

Monthly Development Update – April 2023
9 projects | /r/ethswarm | 25 May 2023

The JS Track released a new Swarm Desktop version and is preparing for the latest bee-js 6.0.0 release.
Monthly Development Update — February 2023
8 projects | /r/ethswarm | 8 Mar 2023

The JS Track has released a new version of Swarm Desktop (0.19.2), which adds experimental support for staking when Bee is already a full-node, and BeeJS (5.2.0)
Monthly Development Update — July 2022
9 projects | /r/ethswarm | 5 Aug 2022

Since then, several new updates were released, and the latest version is 0.15.1, also available from the website. Some of the issues that are mentioned above are already fixed or mitigated, and the team continues to work on polishing the app towards a 1.0 release in the future.

fdp-storage

Posts with mentions or reviews of fdp-storage. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-08.

Monthly Development Update — February 2023
8 projects | /r/ethswarm | 8 Mar 2023

changed the interfaces of some methods https://github.com/fairDataSociety/fdp-storage/pull/213 . The return objects became lighter and it is tailored to easily use the library with proxying (such as Blossom does)
Monthly Development Update — July 2022
9 projects | /r/ethswarm | 5 Aug 2022

Fairdrive is being migrated from FairOS to fdp-storage which is the FairOS implementation in Javascript. Thus far we’ve completed the registration and login flows which includes the ENS Contract login mentioned previously.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing swarm-desktop and fdp-storage you can also consider the following projects:

bee-status - An app which helps users to setup their Bee node and do actions like cash out cheques

blossom - Browser Extension based on Fair Data Protocol

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.

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.

fdp-cli - Command-line interface implementation for fdp-storage

fairOS-dfs - Decentralised File System (dfs) layer of the FairOS

fairdrive-theapp - The main app to browse Fairdrive.

fair-portal - Fair Portal lists dApps compatible with Fairdrive.