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Relay projects on GitHub

Relay and forwarding infrastructure for network traffic; scope varies.

As of , the most-starred Relay projects on GitHub are croc (40.6K stars), hysteria (22.7K stars) and parse-server (21.4K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 13 Relay repositories with 142.9K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was p2wlan, with +49 stars in a day.

13Projects
142.9KStars in total
+75Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+49

p2wlan

yhan-sun/p2wlan · ★ 2.5K

P2WLAN is an open-source, P2P-first, self-hostable virtual LAN tool that gives devices private virtual IPs so machines on different networks (home broadband, mobile, campus, cloud) can talk to each other as if they were on the same LAN.

+11

croc

schollz/croc · ★ 40.6K

croc is a command-line tool that lets any two computers simply and securely transfer files and folders, using peer-to-peer transfer with a relay fallback and end-to-end encryption.

+5

nostr

nostr-protocol/nostr · ★ 12.1K

Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) is an open protocol for a censorship-resistant global social network. This repo holds the idea and spec, not an app.

+4

hysteria

HyNetworks/hysteria · ★ 22.7K

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.

The all-time top

13 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · schollz/croc

    croc

    croc is a command-line tool that lets any two computers simply and securely transfer files and folders, using peer-to-peer transfer with a relay fallback and end-to-end encryption.

    40.6K
  2. #2 · 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
  3. #3 · parse-community/parse-server

    parse-server

    Parse Server is an open source, self-hosted backend: you deploy it to any infrastructure that runs Node.js, standalone or inside an Express app, and it gives your application a ready-made API layer over a database so you don't build that plumbing yourself.

    21.4K
  1. 4

    nginx-rtmp-module

    14Karut/nginx-rtmp-module · C

    nginx-rtmp-module turns NGINX into a media streaming server, adding RTMP, HLS and MPEG-DASH live streaming plus RTMP video-on-demand playback of FLV/MP4 files.

  2. 5

    f8app

    13.9Kfbsamples/f8app · JavaScript

    This is the complete source code of the official F8 app from Facebook's 2017 developer conference, which was published on both Google Play and the App Store.

  3. 6

    nostr

    12.1Knostr-protocol/nostr

    Nostr (Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays) is an open protocol for a censorship-resistant global social network. This repo holds the idea and spec, not an app.

  4. 7

    graphql

    10.1Kgraphql-go/graphql · Go

    An implementation of GraphQL in Go, following the official graphql-js reference implementation, with support for queries, mutations, and subscriptions.

  5. 8

    MasterHttpRelayVPN

    3.9Kmasterking32/MasterHttpRelayVPN · Python

    MasterHttpRelayVPN is a local proxy that routes your browser traffic through a Google Apps Script relay using domain fronting and MITM TLS interception, designed to evade DPI and censorship.

  6. 9

    p2wlan

    2.5Kyhan-sun/p2wlan · Rust

    P2WLAN is an open-source, P2P-first, self-hostable virtual LAN tool that gives devices private virtual IPs so machines on different networks (home broadband, mobile, campus, cloud) can talk to each other as if they were on the same LAN.

  7. 10

    openframe-oss-frontend

    852flamingo-stack/openframe-oss-frontend · TypeScript

    It's the main web application of the OpenFrame platform — a unified, AI-driven control panel for Managed Service Providers (MSPs), positioned as an open-source replacement for expensive proprietary MSP software.

  8. 11

    ra2

    283ra2-games/ra2 · TypeScript

    A fan-made web port that runs the original Red Alert 2 and Yuri's Revenge x86 executables directly in the browser, using the v86 emulator with custom firmware and a Win32/DirectX compatibility layer instead of a real Windows install.

  9. 12

    MeshLAN

    230zhaoxuya520/MeshLAN · Go

    MeshLAN is a self-hosted virtual LAN built on SlackHQ Nebula that connects Windows devices across different networks and NATs, preferring direct P2P links and falling back to relays, with service sharing, name-based access via MeshDNS, and optional AI automation.

  10. 13

    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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