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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
The project lists 72 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #98 in the weekly ranking the week of Jan 4, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a universal file storage client supporting numerous protocols like FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, S3, Git, and cloud services in a Dropbox-like interface.
- Offers extensible, modular architecture with plugin support enabling customization, automation workflows, and broad file format compatibility beyond typical file managers.
- Use for managing and accessing files across heterogeneous storage backends in a unified, user-friendly web interface on desktop and mobile devices.
- Use for integrating and automating file workflows in enterprise environments requiring support for legacy protocols and modern cloud storage simultaneously.
- Use for viewing and handling specialized file types such as scientific data, creative assets, biomedical files, and 3D models with built-in viewers and transcoding.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
AGPL 3.0
Network copyleft: like the GPL, and also triggered by offering the software over a network.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
Watch-outs
- AGPL-style copyleft also applies when the software is offered over a network.
- No GitHub releases; pin a commit or tag instead of a release.
General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score
From the README
FTP • FTPS • SFTP • WebDAV • Git • S3 • NFS • SMB • Artifactory • LDAP • Mysql
IPFS • Dropbox • Google Drive • ...
Familiar with the infamous comment from Dropbox's launch on HN? It went like this:
Once we had a great user interface for FTP, we extended the idea to virtually every storage protocol and added gateways to expose Dropbox itself as an SFTP server, closing the infamous loop, while also adding all the features we always wished Dropbox had.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+403 stars over 85 days across 8 snapshot days; best day +11 on Aug 18.
Forks
1.0K+17
Open issues
130+9
Compared with peers in Cloud
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 8, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asymptote-Labs/agent-beacon | 3.4K | +315 | 75 | 1 day ago |
| firecracker-microvm/firecracker | 37.9K | — | 62 | 59 days ago |
| vectordotdev/vector | 22.8K | — | 64 | 11 days ago |
| jhipster/generator-jhipster | 22.5K | — | 62 | 51 days ago |
| mickael-kerjean/filestash | 14.9K | — | 40 | — |
| moby/buildkit | 10.4K | — | 65 | 1 day ago |
| Category median | 22.5K | — | 64 | — |
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