GUN 2.0
Open source Firebase for Jamstack & Web3
GUN 2.0 launched on August 31, 2021 with 105 votes, #430 of 2,953 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 5 years on.
What it does
1year+ of work went into the new version. To celebrate it's launch Fireship made a free 10min tutorial on building a Chat dApp with it & Svelte! Biggest update of new GUN is it handling 5K messages/second end-to-end between browser with 0 lag to your app's UI!
Decentralized Database
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GUN Starter App Boilerplate – An Easy Open Source Firebase Replacement2016 · github.com · ▲89Framework agnostic starter code for gun apps. Contribute to gundb/gun-starter-app development by creating an account on GitHub.
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