Top 8 JavaScript edge-computing Projects

minisearch

10 4,066 7.9 JavaScript

Tiny and powerful JavaScript full-text search engine for browser and Node

Project mention: Character and Subsector generators for Classic Traveller, with TAS Forms! | /r/traveller | 2023-12-07

I wrote an online catalog a while back (and I need to get back on adding graphics and products at some point). It’s written using Eleventy and the minisearch library. The source and data are available on Github if you want to see how I did things. I’m not a professional web designer either, but it was a fun project.

socket

5 1,462 9.9 JavaScript

A cross-platform runtime for Web developers to build desktop & mobile apps for any OS using any frontend library.

Project mention: A SETI-like project to train LLM on libgen, scihub and the likes? | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-28

we're working toward this with Socket runtime (https://github.com/socketsupply/socket).
Our ultimate goal is to provide a web browser-compatible environment (for quickly building UIs) with a state of the art P2P protocol — A DTN design that is fault and partition tolerant, with comprehensive and complete NAT traversal, without any server or cloud infrastructure requirements from the user — lowering the technical and monetary barriers for distributing and parallelizing work beyond the cloud.

SurveyJS

surveyjs.io sponsored

Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.
scramjet

0 254 0.0 JavaScript

Public tracker for Scramjet Cloud Platform, a platform that bring data from many environments together.
aegis-host

1 235 0.0 JavaScript

This is the ÆGIS federated application host. Federated components are independently deployable, written by multiple teams in multiple languages, and loaded from multiple repos and network locations at runtime, yet capable of running together in a single process or as distributed components in the ÆGIS application fabric.
lowstorage

1 205 8.1 JavaScript

Simple, zero-dependency, object pseudo-database for Cloudflare Workers using R2 bucket. 🧡💾

Project mention: Lowstorage: JSON-based database for Cloudflare Workers and R2 buckets | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-12-03

cep

2 162 0.0 JavaScript

CEP is a software platform designed for users that want to learn or rapidly prototype using standard A.I. components.
compute-actions

1 37 7.0 JavaScript

GitHub Actions for building on Fastly Compute.
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
web

3 16 9.0 JavaScript

Project mention: Apple appears to be breaking iPhone web apps in the EU | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-14

Here we are, being monopoly fucked right in the face.
https://realness.online is my PWA only application, So, I've got a front row seat to apple's monopoly fulcrum killing all desenters.
if you install https://whatpwacando.today/ on a phone or ipad today you can see how they already barely support standards.
Only basic things work. filesystem access is only halfway. no Contact picker, no background sync. They will destroy the user experience for everyone in order to disable other browsers more robust implementations of the spec.
They have been monopoly gaming us for years The EU is forcing them to go out in the open with it

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).