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Rpc projects on GitHub

Remote procedure call frameworks and serialization protocols

As of , the most-starred Rpc projects on GitHub are advanced-java (79.2K stars), protobuf (72.1K stars) and node (68.3K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 42 Rpc repositories with 1M stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was Ghost-Downloader-3, with +35 stars 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.

+19

cloudflare-os

cloudflare/cloudflare-os · ★ 11.4K

An open-source 'operating system' for AI productivity: an agent chat UI, sandboxed app building, and a security layer, originally built for Cloudflare's own employees.

+18

aria2

aria2/aria2 · ★ 43.1K

aria2 is a lightweight, cross-platform command-line download utility that fetches files over HTTP(S), FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent, and Metalink, and can combine multiple protocols/sources for the same file to maximize bandwidth.

+11

go-ethereum

ethereum/go-ethereum · ★ 51.4K

Go-ethereum (geth) is the Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol — the main CLI client used to run a full Ethereum node, sync the blockchain, and expose JSON-RPC APIs to interact with the network.

The all-time top

42 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · doocs/advanced-java

    advanced-java

    A free, community-curated collection of in-depth Java backend interview questions and answers, covering message queues, search engines, caching, sharding, distributed systems, high availability, microservices, and big-data processing.

    79.2K
  2. #2 · protocolbuffers/protobuf

    protobuf

    Protocol Buffers (protobuf) is Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data, similar to XML but smaller, faster, and simpler.

    72.1K
  3. #3 · base/node

    node

    A Docker build for running a Base node. Base is a secure, low-cost, developer-friendly Ethereum L2 built on Optimism's OP Stack, with base-reth-node as the execution client and base-consensus as the consensus client.

    68.3K
  1. 4

    architect-awesome

    60.8Kxingshaocheng/architect-awesome

    A curated technical roadmap in Chinese for backend engineers aiming to become architects, mapping out data structures, algorithms, concurrency, databases, middleware, and system design.

  2. 5

    go-ethereum

    51.4Kethereum/go-ethereum · Go

    Go-ethereum (geth) is the Go implementation of the Ethereum protocol — the main CLI client used to run a full Ethereum node, sync the blockchain, and expose JSON-RPC APIs to interact with the network.

  3. 6

    grpc

    45.4Kgrpc/grpc · C++

    gRPC is a modern, high-performance open-source RPC (remote procedure call) framework that lets client and server applications communicate transparently across languages and platforms.

  4. 7

    meteor

    44.8Kmeteor/meteor · JavaScript

    Meteor is a full-stack JavaScript platform for building modern web, mobile, and desktop applications with a single codebase.

  5. 8

    aria2

    43.1Karia2/aria2 · C++

    aria2 is a lightweight, cross-platform command-line download utility that fetches files over HTTP(S), FTP, SFTP, BitTorrent, and Metalink, and can combine multiple protocols/sources for the same file to maximize bandwidth.

  6. 9

    dubbo

    41.6Kapache/dubbo · Java

    Apache Dubbo is an RPC and microservices framework — this repository is its Java implementation. It covers communication, service discovery, traffic management, observability, security, and tooling for building enterprise-grade microservices.

  7. 10

    trpc

    40.7Ktrpc/trpc · TypeScript

    tRPC lets you build and consume fully typesafe APIs between a TypeScript client and server, without schemas or code generation.

  8. 11

    go-zero

    33.4Kzeromicro/go-zero · Go

    go-zero is a cloud-native Go framework for building web and RPC microservices, packed with built-in engineering practices. It has been serving sites with tens of millions of users for years and is listed in the CNCF Landscape.

  9. 12

    shardeum

    31.2Kshardeum/shardeum · TypeScript

    Shardeum is an EVM-compliant blockchain platform that uses dynamic state sharding to scale horizontally, aiming for faster processing and lower transaction costs without sacrificing security or decentralization.

  10. 13

    kit

    27.4Kgo-kit/kit · Go

    Go kit is a programming toolkit (a set of packages and best practices) for building microservices or well-structured monoliths in Go, solving common distributed-systems and architecture problems so you can focus on business logic.

  11. 14

    flatbuffers

    26.6Kgoogle/flatbuffers · C++

    FlatBuffers is a cross-platform serialization library built for maximum memory efficiency: you read serialized data directly without a parsing/unpacking step, and it keeps forwards/backwards compatibility.

  12. 15

    kratos

    26Kgo-kratos/kratos · Go

    Kratos is a lightweight Go framework for building cloud-native microservices, with small, explicit APIs so your code can focus on business logic instead of plumbing.

  13. 16

    redisson

    24.4Kredisson/redisson · Java

    A Java client and real-time data platform for Redis and Valkey: 50+ distributed Java objects, collections and services — maps, queues, locks, rate limiters, bloom filters, schedulers — beyond what Redis offers natively.

  14. 17

    grpc-go

    23.1Kgrpc/grpc-go · Go

    The Go implementation of gRPC: a high performance, open source, general RPC framework that puts mobile and HTTP/2 first. You use it to build gRPC clients and servers in Go.

  15. 18

    advanced-go-programming-book

    20.1Kchai2010/advanced-go-programming-book · Go

    This is the open-source online book 'Advanced Go Programming' (Go语言高级编程), covering CGO, Go assembly, RPC implementation, Protobuf plugins, web framework implementation and distributed systems for developers who already have some Go experience.

  16. 19

    grpc-gateway

    20Kgrpc-ecosystem/grpc-gateway · Go

    gRPC-Gateway is a protoc plugin that reads your protobuf service definitions and generates a reverse-proxy server which translates a RESTful HTTP API into gRPC, so one service can serve both gRPC and RESTful JSON clients at the same time.

  17. 20

    web3.js

    19.9Kweb3/web3.js · TypeScript

    A collection of TypeScript libraries for talking to the Ethereum blockchain through its JSON RPC API, plus utility functions for Dapp developers. It was maintained by ChainSafe Systems.

  18. 21

    brpc

    17.6Kapache/brpc · C++

    bRPC is an industrial-grade C++ RPC framework built at Baidu for high-performance systems like search, storage, machine learning, advertisement and recommendation; the name stands for 'better RPC'.

  19. 22

    arrow

    17.2Kapache/arrow · C++

    Apache Arrow is a universal columnar format plus a multi-language toolbox for fast data interchange and in-memory analytics — technologies that let data systems store, process, and move tabular data efficiently.

  20. 23

    7days-golang

    17Kgeektutu/7days-golang · Go

    A learning repository that walks you through rebuilding four Go projects from scratch in seven days each: a gin-like web framework (Gee), a groupcache-like distributed cache (GeeCache), a gorm/xorm-like ORM (GeeORM), and a net/rpc-like RPC framework (GeeRPC), plus some Go WebAssembly demos.

  21. 24

    dogecoin

    15.2Kdogecoin/dogecoin · C++

    Dogecoin Core is the official full node and wallet software for the Dogecoin (DOGE) cryptocurrency network, a community-driven coin inspired by a Shiba Inu meme.

  22. 25

    router

    15.2KTanStack/router · TypeScript

    TanStack Router is a modern router for the web built around end-to-end type safety — routes, params, loaders and search params are all checked. The repo also hosts TanStack Start, a full-stack framework built on top of the router.

  23. 26

    capnproto

    13.2Kcapnproto/capnproto · C++

    Cap'n Proto is an insanely fast data interchange format and capability-based RPC system. Think JSON, except binary — or think Protocol Buffers, except faster.

  24. 27

    electrobun

    12.9Kblackboardsh/electrobun · TypeScript

    Electrobun is a framework for building fast, tiny, cross-platform desktop apps written entirely in TypeScript, with its own bundled build tooling, runtime, and native platform layer.

  25. 28

    comlink

    12.8KGoogleChromeLabs/comlink · TypeScript

    Comlink is a tiny library (~1.1kB) that provides an RPC implementation over postMessage for WebWorkers and ES6 Proxies, so you can use an object from another thread as if it were local instead of manually handling postMessage.

  26. 29

    grpc-rust

    12.5Kgrpc/grpc-rust · Rust

    tonic — a native Rust gRPC client and server implementation. It runs over HTTP/2 with first-class async/await support and is built as a core building block for production systems written in Rust.

  27. 30

    grpc-java

    12.1Kgrpc/grpc-java · Java

    gRPC-Java is the official Java implementation of gRPC, Google's RPC framework built on top of HTTP/2. It lets Java and Android clients and servers call each other through typed, binary service stubs instead of hand-rolled REST/JSON APIs.

  28. 31

    pomelo

    11.9KNetEase/pomelo · JavaScript

    A fast, scalable game server framework for Node.js, originally built by NetEase. It ships the core framework plus related components — libraries and tools — and also suits realtime web apps.

  29. 32

    cloudflare-os

    11.4Kcloudflare/cloudflare-os · TypeScript

    An open-source 'operating system' for AI productivity: an agent chat UI, sandboxed app building, and a security layer, originally built for Cloudflare's own employees.

  30. 33

    thrift

    11Kapache/thrift · C++

    Apache Thrift is a lightweight, language-independent software stack for building RPC clients and servers. It generates code from a single interface definition file so programs written in different languages can call each other's procedures and share data.

  31. 34

    webui-aria2

    10.4Kziahamza/webui-aria2 · JavaScript

    A browser-based dashboard for aria2, the command-line file downloader, so you can manage your downloads from a web UI instead of the terminal.

  32. 35

    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.

  33. 36

    sphere-sdk-connect-example

    9.5Kunicity-sphere/sphere-sdk-connect-example · TypeScript

    Four runnable example apps showing the ways a program can work with a Sphere wallet: a browser dApp, a Node dApp, a bot that runs its own wallet, and a backend that only authenticates a user.

  34. 37

    coost

    4.2Kidealvin/coost · C++

    coost (aka co) is a lightweight, high-performance, easy-to-use C++ base library whose stated goal is to make C++ programming simple and enjoyable.

  35. 38

    nautilus-compass

    1.3Kchunxiaoxx/nautilus-compass · Python

    nautilus-compass is an open-source memory and reliability layer for AI coding agents: it gives them long-term memory, catches cases where the agent ignores recalled rules (drift detection), and ships its own benchmark suite to verify the claims independently.

  36. 39

    graftcode

    927grft-dev/graftcode · PowerShell

    Graftcode is an integration-free development layer: you call methods across any language and runtime on remote services as if they were local dependencies — no hand-written REST/gRPC layers, SDKs, or client code.

  37. 40

    allox-os

    313AlloxOrg/allox-os · Python

    A dedicated runtime for AI agents: it runs multiple agents and sessions inside a Kata-isolated VM and adds workspace isolation, checkpointing, rollback and observability on top of it.

  38. 41

    boujoy-harness

    250asen-goat-mine/boujoy-harness · JavaScript

    A local desktop client for DeepSeek Harness: upstream stays the agent runtime handling models, tools, event frames and RPC, while Boujoy adds the desktop host, a local gateway, a chat UI and a Markdown knowledge workspace.

  39. 42

    toolrush

    157OnlyTerp/toolrush · Python

    ToolRush is a low-overhead execution layer plugin for Hermes Agent (Nous Research's agent harness) that eliminates the latency overhead of tool calls like file reads, searches, and terminal commands while keeping the same tools, outputs, and safety gates.

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