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Quic projects on GitHub

The QUIC transport protocol for faster, encrypted connections.

As of , the most-starred Quic projects on GitHub are nginx (31.9K stars), srs (29.3K stars) and hysteria (22.7K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 17 Quic repositories with 259.5K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was Ghost-Downloader-3, with +35 stars in a day.

17Projects
259.5KStars in total
+125Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+35

Ghost-Downloader-3

XiaoYouChR/Ghost-Downloader-3 · ★ 10K

Ghost Downloader is a cross-platform desktop download manager that handles HTTP, BitTorrent/Magnet, FTP, M3U8, MPEG-DASH and eD2k links, plus video sites like YouTube and Bilibili, all in one app.

+20

EasyTier

EasyTier/EasyTier · ★ 14.1K

EasyTier is a decentralized mesh VPN built with Rust and Tokio. It connects your devices into one secure virtual network over the internet without requiring any central server.

+17

iroh

n0-computer/iroh · ★ 12.7K

Iroh is a Rust library that lets you connect to other devices by dialing their public key instead of an IP address; it automatically finds and maintains the fastest connection—direct via hole-punching, or falling back to a relay—built on QUIC.

+8

nginx

nginx/nginx · ★ 31.9K

NGINX ('engine x') is a free, open source web server, load balancer, reverse proxy, API gateway and content cache — described as the world's most popular web server.

The all-time top

17 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · nginx/nginx

    nginx

    NGINX ('engine x') is a free, open source web server, load balancer, reverse proxy, API gateway and content cache — described as the world's most popular web server.

    31.9K
  2. #2 · ossrs/srs

    srs

    SRS (Simple Realtime Server) is a simple, high-performance, AI-driven real-time media server for live streaming: RTMP, WebRTC, HLS, HTTP-FLV, SRT, MPEG-DASH, and GB28181, with codecs from H.264 to AV1, VP9, AAC, Opus, and G.711.

    29.3K
  3. #3 · HyNetworks/hysteria

    hysteria

    Hysteria is an open-source proxy tool — powerful, lightning-fast and censorship-resistant. It routes your traffic through a server you control with a protocol built to withstand blocking.

    22.7K
  1. 4

    awesome-tunneling

    21.9Kanderspitman/awesome-tunneling · Python

    A curated list of tunneling tools and services (alternatives to ngrok, Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale, and ZeroTier) that let you expose a local server to the internet, with a focus on self-hosting.

  2. 5

    gost

    18.2Kginuerzh/gost · Go

    GOST (GO Simple Tunnel) is a secure, multi-protocol proxy and tunnel tool written in Go. It can act as an HTTP/SOCKS5 proxy, chain multiple proxies together, and forward local or remote TCP/UDP ports through encrypted channels.

  3. 6

    apisix

    17.2Kapache/apisix · Lua

    Apache APISIX is an open-source, dynamic, real-time, high-performance API Gateway that also serves as an AI Gateway. It provides traffic management — load balancing, canary release, circuit breaking, authentication, observability — for both north-south and east-west traffic.

  4. 7

    kcp

    16.9Kskywind3000/kcp · C

    KCP is a fast, reliable ARQ protocol for realtime traffic: it trades 10-20% extra bandwidth for 30-40% lower average latency and up to 3x lower maximum latency than TCP.

  5. 8

    coredns

    14.4Kcoredns/coredns · Go

    A fast and flexible DNS server and forwarder written in Go, built as a chain of plugins — each plugin performs one DNS function. It is a graduated Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project.

  6. 9

    EasyTier

    14.1KEasyTier/EasyTier · Rust

    EasyTier is a decentralized mesh VPN built with Rust and Tokio. It connects your devices into one secure virtual network over the internet without requiring any central server.

  7. 10

    tengine

    13.4Kalibaba/tengine · C

    Tengine is a high-performance web server and reverse proxy originated by Taobao, built as a fork of nginx that stays 100% compatible with it while adding extra enterprise features.

  8. 11

    quiche

    12.8Kcloudflare/quiche · Rust

    quiche is Cloudflare's implementation of the QUIC transport protocol and HTTP/3, as specified by the IETF.

  9. 12

    iroh

    12.7Kn0-computer/iroh · Rust

    Iroh is a Rust library that lets you connect to other devices by dialing their public key instead of an IP address; it automatically finds and maintains the fastest connection—direct via hole-punching, or falling back to a relay—built on QUIC.

  10. 13

    quic-go

    11.8Kquic-go/quic-go · Go

    quic-go is a pure Go implementation of the QUIC transport protocol (RFC 9000/9001/9002), plus HTTP/3 (RFC 9114) built on top of it.

  11. 14

    h2o

    11.6Kh2o/h2o · C

    H2O is a new-generation HTTP server written in C that supports HTTP/1.x, HTTP/2, and experimental HTTP/3, built to be faster and more responsive than older-generation web servers.

  12. 15

    Ghost-Downloader-3

    10KXiaoYouChR/Ghost-Downloader-3 · Python

    Ghost Downloader is a cross-platform desktop download manager that handles HTTP, BitTorrent/Magnet, FTP, M3U8, MPEG-DASH and eD2k links, plus video sites like YouTube and Bilibili, all in one app.

  13. 16

    WhiteAestherMobile

    262WhiteDNS/WhiteAestherMobile · Rust

    WhiteAestherMobile is the native Android client for the Aether encrypted route engine. It probes for a working path out of restrictive or censored networks and routes your device's traffic through it.

  14. 17

    tincan-cli

    212bilalyazicioglu/tincan-cli · Rust

    tincan is a serverless peer-to-peer voice and text chat app you run in your terminal, like a tiny Discord alternative with no accounts or central server to set up.

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