Top 23 Networking Open-Source Projects

• OkHttp

  0 39,450 8.9 Java

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

• Alamofire

  2 35,311 6.9 Swift

  Elegant HTTP Networking in Swift

  Project mention: Is Alamofire the industry standard or does your company handle networking differently? | reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming | 2021-01-24

  AlamoFire doesn’t support background configurations. Makes it impossible for my company to use AlamoFire for the one part of the app where it’d be useful as we support uploading/downloading unlimited numbers of files at a time (data driven app with offline support). If you’re downloading/uploading 10GB of data, you don’t want to be stuck sitting in an app waiting for it to finish... I’d be shocked if it’s an industry standard with such an important core feature missing.

• Scout

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  Get performance insights in less than 4 minutes. Scout APM uses tracing logic that ties bottlenecks to source code so you know the exact line of code causing performance issues and can get back to building a great product faster.

• Dubbo

  0 34,752 8.1 Java

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

• AFNetworking

  0 33,087 4.3 Objective-C

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

• Netty

  2 26,085 9.4 Java

  Netty project - an event-driven asynchronous network application framework

  Project mention: The Kotlin Foundation – By Jetbrains and Google | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-02-13

  Java developers are spoiled for choice.

  There's everything, from the simplest possible https://sparkjava.com/, to the a little bit nicer https://javalin.io/ (which has a Kotlin wrapper), to the high performance and full framework https://vertx.io/ (which always had great multi-lingual support within the JVM), to the newer and GraalVM-friendly https://micronaut.io/ and https://quarkus.io/ ... for the Enterprise-only crowd, you still have the JEE successor, https://jakarta.ee/ and Oracle's own https://helidon.io/#/ (which likes to position itself as microservice focused, like Micronaut and Quarkus). Not to mention lower level libraries you can use, like https://www.eclipse.org/jetty/ and https://netty.io/.

  Ktor has a tough fight to become dominant even in the Kotlin world.

  Spring Boot is, still, definitely the most popular option, but it's still just one of very very many!

• libcurl

  15 19,501 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: DNS filtering USELESS now kids use fireforx | reddit.com/r/openwrt | 2021-02-22

  Find a DoH server list like https://github.com/curl/curl/wiki/DNS-over-HTTPS to filter / block the IPs of DoH services in the firewall.

• libuv

  5 16,823 8.3 C

  Cross-platform asynchronous I/O

  Project mention: C Deep | dev.to | 2021-02-27

  libuv - Cross-platform asynchronous I/O. MIT

• fasthttp

  4 14,483 7.6 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: To Go with Golang | dev.to | 2021-02-05

  I went with fasthttp, which provides high performance, zero memory allocations in hot paths and Up to 10x faster than net/http for a large throughput service. Go provides out of the box http support but for a beginner, it felt much easier to go with a framework, thereby ended up using fiber.

• Moya

  3 12,855 5.3 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

  0 12,327 3.9 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。

• CocoaAsyncSocket

  0 11,880 2.6 Objective-C

  Asynchronous socket networking library for Mac and iOS

• tokio

  26 11,168 9.5 Rust

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

  Project mention: Multiple Nested Asyncs in an Async Server | reddit.com/r/rust | 2021-02-28

  Official Tokio Tutorial

• RestKit

  0 10,283 0.0 Objective-C

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

• KCP

  0 9,358 4.9 C

  :zap: KCP - A Fast and Reliable ARQ Protocol

• Muduo

  0 9,088 3.5 C++

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

• gRPC

  5 8,445 0.0 Java

  The Java gRPC implementation. HTTP/2 based RPC

  Project mention: Android Java GRPC Tutorial | dev.to | 2021-02-22

  clone https://github.com/grpc/grpc-java

• Finagle

  0 7,892 9.0 Scala

  A fault tolerant, protocol-agnostic RPC system

• uvloop

  1 7,580 6.4 Python

  Ultra fast asyncio event loop.

  Project mention: Python Concurrency: The Tricky Bits | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-02-18

• cilium

  1 7,573 10.0 Go

  eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

  Project mention: Gopher Gold #20 - Wed Nov 18 2020 | dev.to | 2020-11-17

  cilium/cilium (Go): eBPF-based Networking, Security, and Observability

• libevent

  1 7,178 7.9 C

  Event notification library

  Project mention: C Deep | dev.to | 2021-02-27

  libevent - Event loop replacement for network servers. BSD-3-Clause

• Proxygen

  0 7,037 9.9 C++

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

• Mongoose

  1 6,919 9.1 C

  Mongoose Embedded Web Server Library - a multi-protocol embedded networking library with TCP/UDP, HTTP, WebSocket, MQTT built-in protocols, async DNS resolver, and non-blocking API. (by cesanta)

  Project mention: Extremely fast HTTP requests library | reddit.com/r/cpp | 2020-12-24

  Perhaps check out mongoose (https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose).

• ZeroMQ

  1 6,786 8.6 C++

  ZeroMQ core engine in C++, implements ZMTP/3.1

  Project mention: can you recommend a production level C++ open source project that I can learn what is the production level code looks like? | reddit.com/r/Cplusplus | 2021-01-22

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