Top 5 JavaScript Peer-to-peer filesharing Projects

FilePizza

23 3,844 0.0 JavaScript

:pizza: Peer-to-peer file transfers in your browser

Project mention: is there a free file sharing service? | reddit.com/r/Piracy | 2022-07-23

file.pizza is pretty good
instant.io

13 3,102 8.2 JavaScript

🚀 Streaming file transfer over WebTorrent (torrents on the web)

Project mention: 11 methods of sending 118GB failed. Advice? | reddit.com/r/techsupport | 2022-08-08

Instant.io (it's torrenting sort of?) didn't work: It froze and never "uploaded" anything
Appwrite

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ShareFest

0 1,653 0.0 JavaScript

Web based p2p file sharing built on WebRTC Data Channels API (by Peer5)
bittorrent-tracker

1 1,438 6.5 JavaScript

🌊 Simple, robust, BitTorrent tracker (client & server) implementation

Project mention: aquatic: extremely performant open BitTorrent tracker software (UDP, HTTP, WebTorrent) | reddit.com/r/trackers | 2022-01-28

aquatic_http is a BitTorrent over HTTP over TLS tracker and aquatic_ws is a WebTorrent over TLS tracker. I don't have full current benchmarks comparing them to other options, but in a previous one, aquatic_ws handily outperformed both wt-tracker and bittorrent-tracker.
peerflix-server

0 1,242 0.7 JavaScript

Streaming torrent client for Node.js with web ui.

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). The latest post mention was on 2022-08-08.

JavaScript Peer-to-peer filesharing related posts

How To: create a persistent seeder server using Webtorrent
1 project | reddit.com/r/WebTorrent | 28 Jul 2022
is there a free file sharing service?
1 project | reddit.com/r/Piracy | 23 Jul 2022
Filepizza: Peer-to-peer file transfers in the browser
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Jul 2022
The Boys S3 Episode 6
1 project | reddit.com/r/PopCornTimeApp | 7 Jul 2022
Best way to share a downloaded movie with someone else?
1 project | reddit.com/r/Piracy | 3 Jul 2022
server side AES encryption
1 project | reddit.com/r/linuxquestions | 14 Jun 2022
File Transer Software using Ephemeral keys?
4 projects | reddit.com/r/cryptography | 10 Jun 2022

Index

What are some of the best open-source Peer-to-peer filesharing projects in JavaScript? This list will help you:

	Project	Stars
1	FilePizza	3,844
2	instant.io	3,102
3	ShareFest	1,653
4	bittorrent-tracker	1,438
5	peerflix-server	1,242

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