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24 alternatives to Pion/handoff – Move WebRTC out of browser and into Go
Start WebRTC in the browser—run it somewhere else. Contribute to pion/handoff development by creating an account on GitHub.
Pion/handoff is a Go library that enables WebRTC functionality outside of web browsers by moving the protocol into Go applications. It allows developers to build peer-to-peer communication systems in server-side and… 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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Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API. Contribute to pion/webrtc development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Demonstration of a browser connecting to Pion WebRTC without a signaling server. - pion/offline-browser-communication
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Pure Go implementation of the WebRTC API. Contribute to pion/webrtc development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Examples of WebRTC applications that are large, or use 3rd party libraries - example-webrtc-applications/sip-to-webrtc at main · pion/example-webrtc-applications
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I’m so excited to show my first open-source project and first post here. I initially started this project to learn Go language, it is an experimental project. The main goal is to track the adventure of a WebRTC stream from start to finish, by debugging the project or tracking the output at console. By trying out this project, you will deep dive into the steps which are taken while starting up a WebRTC session, and more. It consists of a web UI (TypeScript) and a server back-end (Golang) projects. They can run on Docker containers, in development mode or production mode, you can find…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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SCTP is a low level protocol focused on reliable packet transmission. Unlike hopelessly flinging packets from one device to another, it makes sure that the packets are correct using CRC, removes duplicate packets, and allows for packets to be sent in any order. Going into an established library, I thought that everything was already implemented and that there wasn't anything to do until I went through the existing issues and organized all the tasks and decided on an order. Sean DuBois (https://github.com/Sean-Der), one of the co-creators and current maintainers of Pion, an…
2025 · pion.ly · its alternatives →
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2016 · codecoachapp.com · its alternatives →
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gRPC over WebRTC▲102gRPC over WebRTC. Contribute to jsmouret/grpc-over-webrtc development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I just released weron, a P2P VPN that uses WebRTC for transport which I've been working on for the last couple of months. It can create both layer 2/Ethernet and layer 3/IP overlay networks, and the underlying transport layer can be easily embedded to write your own P2P apps with Go. Compared to for example Tailscale, WireGuard and ZeroTier, its much harder to block on a network level and also significantly easier to set up, while not sacrifing much performance. I'd love to get your feedback :)
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A work-in-progress ION SFU remake. Contribute to pion/ion development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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WebRTC For The Curious # Introduction # WebRTC For The Curious is an open-source book created by WebRTC implementers to share their hard-earned knowledge with the world. It’s written for those who are always looking for more and don’t settle for abstraction. Key features # Focus on protocols and API
2020 · webrtcforthecurious.com · its alternatives →
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Back end web app services over WebRTC. Contribute to chr15m/bugout development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A self hosted virtual browser that runs in docker and uses WebRTC. - m1k1o/neko
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Review of the open source cloud gaming platform, cloudretrio.io written in golang and using WebRTC for low latency, interactive game play
2020 · webrtchacks.com · its alternatives →
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Minimal and idiomatic WebSocket library for Go. Contribute to coder/websocket development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I’ve written a bunch of WebSocket servers over the years to do simple things like state synchronization, WebRTC signaling, and notifying a client when a backend job was run. I realized that if I had a simple way to create a private, temporary, mini-redis that the client could talk to directly, it would save a lot of time. So we created DriftDB. In addition to the open source server that you can run yourself, we also provide https://jamsocket.live where you can use an instance we host on Cloudflare’s edge (~13ms round trip latency from my home in NY). You may have seen my…
2023 · driftdb.com · its alternatives →
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Amazon Kinesis Video Streams Webrtc SDK is for developers to install and customize realtime communication between devices and enable secure streaming of video, audio to Kinesis Video Streams. - awslabs/amazon-kinesis-video-streams-webrtc-sdk-c
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I find existing BitTorrent clients offer a rather old user interface, and it's hard to set up remote access, involving setting up a web server, a TLS certificate, domain name, configuring the router, etc... PikaTorrent tries to offer a modern and easy UI. It is available on desktop (Linux & Windows for now), mobile (Android for now), as CLI as an npm package, and even on the web (as a frontend for remote control). Thanks to WebRTC, one can link the mobile or web app with the desktop or CLI app. This way, it's possible to remotely manage torrents securely and without any complicated setup.…
2023 · pikatorrent.com · its alternatives →
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build network tunnels over WebRTC. Contribute to rtctunnel/rtctunnel development by creating an account on GitHub.
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2015 · labs.yulrizka.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, I recently published a small open-source project. It’s a minimal network packet analyzer written in Go — designed more like a learning toy than a replacement for Wireshark. It currently supports parsing basic protocols like TLS, DNS, and HTTP, and includes a tiny fuzzing engine to test payload responses. You can inspect raw packet content directly from the terminal. The output is colored for readability, and the code structure is kept simple and clear. The entire program is very small — just about 400 lines of Go code. I know it’s not anywhere near Wireshark’s level, and I still…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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💚🇺🇸🗽Secure remote browsing anywhere, any way you like it. - GitHub - BrowserBox/BrowserBox: 💚🇺🇸🗽Secure remote browsing anywhere, any way you like it.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · jondot.github.io · its alternatives →
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https://github.com/TomasHubelbauer/webrtc-data-channel-demo Hi! I made this GitHub repo to try and show WebRTC data channels and the connection establishment flow in a different way from what I was able to find online. My aim with this repository is to make WebRTC data channels accessible to any web developer by showcasing offerer and answerer separately for total novices (makes it much clearer what's going on on each end of the connection) as well as combined approach where a peer can be both offerer and answerer. I use postMessage instead of a real signalling channel,…
2017 · its alternatives →
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