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server APIs for Node.js

I built this because I wanted to make outbound and accept inbound HTTP/3 and raw QUIC connections from ordinary Node.js code, without building Node from source or putting everything behind a reverse proxy. Repo: https://github.com/currentspace/http3 npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@currentspace/http3 It’s a native package around Rust/quiche. It supports both client and server APIs, I'm using it in a couple of projects: creating raw QUIC streams, datagrams, custom ALPN, session behavior, and HTTP/3 client work from Node. I've…

This is a native Node.js package providing HTTP/3 and raw QUIC client and server APIs built on Rust's quiche library. Developers can create outbound and accept inbound QUIC connections directly from Node.js code… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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