Top 23 Networking Open-Source Projects

• OkHttp

  10 41,003 8.8 Kotlin

  Square’s meticulous HTTP client for the JVM, Android, and GraalVM.

  

  Project mention: What am I missing? Using Volley, trying to import its classes | reddit.com/r/androiddev | 2021-10-22

  Just some advice, would recommend against volley, it's way more of a pain to use than it needs to be. Instead use okhhtp or retrofit if you want a nice abstraction on top of okhhtp.

• Alamofire

  6 36,544 6.6 Swift

  Elegant HTTP Networking in Swift

  

  Project mention: Evitando conflitos no Xcode | dev.to | 2021-10-14

  import ProjectDescription let dependencies = Dependencies( carthage: [ .github(path: "Alamofire/Alamofire", requirement: .exact("5.0.4")), ], swiftPackageManager: [ .remote(url: "https://github.com/Alamofire/Alamofire", requirement: .upToNextMajor(from: "5.0.0")), ], platforms: [.iOS] )

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• Dubbo

  0 36,299 9.8 Java

  Apache Dubbo is a high-performance, java based, open source RPC framework.

  

• AFNetworking

  0 33,250 1.7 Objective-C

  A delightful networking framework for iOS, macOS, watchOS, and tvOS.

  

• Netty

  18 27,821 9.7 Java

  Netty project - an event-driven asynchronous network application framework

  

  Project mention: Axboe Achieves 8M IOPS Per-Core with Newest Linux Optimization Patches | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-10-18

  Why did you omit the response you received from a netty developer that showed a large performance improvement[1]? Focusing entirely on the few cases where people report regressions and ignoring all of the reports of improvements isn't a good way to make an objective assessment.

  [1] https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/10622#issuecomment-701...

• libcurl

  77 22,257 9.8 C

  A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET and TFTP. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features

  

  Project mention: Writing Bash Scripts Like A Pro - Part 1 - Styling Guide | dev.to | 2021-10-24

  There are no external libraries like Python's requests or Node's axios, though it is possible to use external applications such as curl

• libuv

  21 18,282 8.6 C

  Cross-platform asynchronous I/O

  

  Project mention: I need a good and simple networking library for C++ | reddit.com/r/gamedev | 2021-10-06

  cmake include(FetchContent) FetchContent_Declare(libuv URL "https://github.com/libuv/libuv/archive/master.zip") FetchContent_MakeAvailable(libuv)

• Nanos

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• fasthttp

  8 16,244 8.5 Go

  Fast HTTP package for Go. Tuned for high performance. Zero memory allocations in hot paths. Up to 10x faster than net/http

  Project mention: Gerenciamento de dependência em Go (Go Modules) | dev.to | 2021-09-26

• tokio

  63 13,613 9.6 Rust

  A runtime for writing reliable asynchronous applications with Rust. Provides I/O, networking, scheduling, timers, ...

  

  Project mention: Pointer Fu: An adventure in the Tokio code base | dev.to | 2021-10-25

  In an effort to understand the internals of asynchronous runtimes, I've been spending time reading Tokio's source code. I've still got a long way to go but it has been a great journey so far.

• Moya

  2 13,483 7.6 Swift

  Network abstraction layer written in Swift.

  

  Project mention: RetroSwift new library to make API requests | reddit.com/r/swift | 2021-01-26

  What is the advantage of your library over established solutions like Moya or protocol oriented networking approaches?

• kcptun

  2 12,602 2.8 Go

  A Stable & Secure Tunnel based on KCP with N:M multiplexing and FEC. Available for ARM, MIPS, 386 and AMD64。KCPプロトコルに基づく安全なトンネル。KCP 프로토콜을 기반으로 하는 보안 터널입니다。

  Project mention: Looking for lowest-latency WebSocket server/library | reddit.com/r/golang | 2021-05-08

• CocoaAsyncSocket

  0 12,054 1.9 Objective-C

  Asynchronous socket networking library for Mac and iOS

• Muduo

  0 10,322 4.2 C++

  Event-driven network library for multi-threaded Linux server in C++11

• RestKit

  0 10,279 0.0 Objective-C

  RestKit is a framework for consuming and modeling RESTful web resources on iOS and OS X

  

• KCP

  3 10,212 3.4 C

  :zap: KCP - A Fast and Reliable ARQ Protocol

  Project mention: How feasible is this idea? Creating a battery run audio transmitter and receiver over TCP/IP | reddit.com/r/esp8266 | 2021-05-30

  I'd consider KCP protocol over TCP, it has 30-40% lower latency at the expense of 20% higher bandwidth.

• cilium

  4 9,389 9.9 Go

  eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

  

  Project mention: Container security best practices: Ultimate guide | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-10-13

• gRPC

  6 9,151 9.7 Java

  The Java gRPC implementation. HTTP/2 based RPC

  

  Project mention: grpc_bench: open-source, objective gRPC benchmark | reddit.com/r/grpc | 2021-04-20

  Small clarification (to my understanding, I'm not a Java Guru) on why Java got on top - those Java implementations use something called Direct Executor. It's super performant when there's no chance of a blocking operation. But if you are to do anything more than echo service, you might be in trouble. Other implementations probably don't suffer from the same constraint. The related discussion can be found in this PR.

• uvloop

  2 8,113 6.2 Cython

  Ultra fast asyncio event loop.

  

  Project mention: Concurrency in Python with FastAPI | dev.to | 2021-09-09

  We see a small improvement. But isn't asyncio supposed to be very performant? And Uvicorn is based on uvloop, described as:

• Finagle

  3 8,074 9.4 Scala

  A fault tolerant, protocol-agnostic RPC system

  

  Project mention: Akka became the de-facto solution for Scala web development? | reddit.com/r/scala | 2021-09-18

  Finagle, possibly with Finch on top.

• libevent

  3 7,988 8.3 C

  Event notification library

  

  Project mention: Io_uring is not an event system | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-06-17

• Mongoose

  7 7,567 9.5 C

  Embedded Web Server (by cesanta)

  

  Project mention: how to share my hard disk as od | reddit.com/r/opendirectories | 2021-10-10

  https://mongoose.ws/ is pretty simple to set up

• ZeroTier

  135 7,470 7.7 C++

  A Smart Ethernet Switch for Earth

  

  Project mention: Unable to RDP to computer only on home network | reddit.com/r/HomeNetworking | 2021-10-25

  Check out ZeroTier for this. Block all RDP except via the ZeroTier interface and just always connect by that IP.

• Proxygen

  3 7,293 9.9 C++

  A collection of C++ HTTP libraries including an easy to use HTTP server.

  

  Project mention: kleinsHTTP: A stupid stupidly simple HTTP Server | reddit.com/r/cpp | 2021-08-21

  proxygen claims to support all 3, although I'm still not sure if it's an actual library or just an interface.

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