hyperboot

offline webapp bootloader (by substack)

Hyperboot Alternatives

Similar projects and alternatives to hyperboot

NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a better hyperboot alternative or higher similarity.

hyperboot reviews and mentions

Posts with mentions or reviews of hyperboot. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-04-19.
  • Wormhole-crypto: Streaming encryption based on Encrypted Content-Encoding
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Apr 2021
    > the other uses client-server cryptography pretending to be end-to-end

    This is misleading and false. Wormhole.app uses end-to-end encryption. It's factually incorrect to imply otherwise.

    To address the larger point – auditing a web app is indeed challenging with current web technologies. In the past, I experimented with a technique using App Cache to permanently cache a web app on first use [1]. Later, that technique was expanded into hyperboot [2] to give users the benefits of explicit, immutable versioning with control over upgrades using the html-version-spec while preserving the simplicity of passing around a URL.

    With the impending removal of AppCache from most browsers, the web is currently missing a way to "pin" a site to a specific version and only update it with user consent. Service Workers come close but they mandate a 24 hour maximum cache time before refetching from the server.

    We'd love to offer the usability benefits of web apps – you can give someone a URL and they can immediately load the app – with the security of installed apps – doesn't change without warning – once web standards catch up. This is something that I care deeply about.

    In the meantime, use magic-wormhole if you prefer a locally-installed command line tool and you're sending files to someone who understands the command line. Use Wormhole.app if you want usable end-to-end encryption, similar to what Firefox Send used to provide.

    [1]: https://github.com/feross/infinite-app-cache

    [2]: https://github.com/substack/hyperboot

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about 8 years ago

substack/hyperboot is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of hyperboot is JavaScript.


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