n0-computer/iroh
IP addresses break, dial keys instead. A library that adds QUIC + NAT Traversal to your apps.
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Where it stands
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5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 16 days ago, with 73 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #31 in the weekly ranking the week of Jun 28, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a Rust library for peer-to-peer connections using public key dialing with QUIC and NAT traversal.
- Enables fast, authenticated, and encrypted direct connections with automatic hole-punching and relay fallback for robust connectivity.
- Use for building decentralized applications requiring secure, low-latency peer-to-peer communication across NATs.
- Use for implementing scalable content-addressed blob transfer and publish-subscribe overlay networks on mobile or resource-constrained devices.
- Use for creating custom protocols or services that need reliable, multiplexed QUIC streams with automatic network path optimization.
Should you depend on it?
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License
Apache 2.0
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
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From the README
less net work for networks
Iroh gives you an API for dialing by public key. You say “connect to that phone”, iroh will find & maintain the fastest connection for you, regardless of where it is.
The fastest route is a direct connection, so if necessary, iroh tries to hole-punch. Should this fail, it can fall back to an open ecosystem of public relay servers. To ensure these connections are as fast as possible, we continuously measure iroh.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+752 stars over 82 days across 8 snapshot days; best day +14 on Aug 28.
Forks
760+26
Open issues
197+30
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| n0-computer/iroh | 12.9K | — | 64 | 16 days ago |
| Category median | 94.7K | +2.0K | 75 | — |
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