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    The portable Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) SDK provides support for building UPnP-compliant control points, devices, and bridges on several operating systems. The main repository is at GitHub in https://github.com/pupnp/pupnp. This is just a clone repository for legacy reasons. Old SourceForge repo: git://pupnp.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/pupnp/pupnp
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    a POSIX-C implementation of the http://oauth.net/ protocol. libOauth provides functionality to encode URLs and sign HTTP request data according to the oAuth standard.
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    PDF.js

    PDF.js

    A PDF Reader in JavaScript

    PDF.js is a web standards-based platform for parsing and rendering Portable Document Formats (PDFs). Open source and built with HTML5, this PDF viewer is supported by a great community and Mozilla Labs. PDF.js can be used on both modern and older browsers, and is built into version 19+ of Firefox.
    Downloads: 87 This Week
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    PreMiD

    PreMiD

    Source code of the PreMiD application

    Source code of the PreMiD application. PreMiD is a simple, configurable utility that allows you to show what you're doing on the web in your Discord now playing status. It supports many different websites, and will support multiple users watching the same content simultaneously in an upcoming update.
    Downloads: 39 This Week
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    phpipam

    phpipam

    phpipam open-source IP address management

    phpipam is an open-source web IP address management application (IPAM). Its goal is to provide light, modern and useful IP address management. It is php-based application with MySQL database backend, using jQuery libraries, ajax and some HTML5/CSS3 features.
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    Downloads: 123 This Week
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    Docker Compose

    Docker Compose

    Define and run multi-container applications with Docker

    Docker Compose is an open source tool for defining and running multi-container applications with Docker. Compose lets you use a YAML file to configure your application’s services, and then create and start all the services from your configuration with just a single command. Compose works great in all environments: production, staging, testing, development, and on CI workflows. Compose has commands for every stage of your application lifecycle, from starting, stopping and rebuilding services, through to status viewing, streaming of log output and running a one-off command on a service.
    Downloads: 19 This Week
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    Sentinel

    Sentinel

    Lightweight, powerful flow control component

    Sentinel is a powerful flow control component that ensures the reliability and monitoring of microservices by taking “flow” as the breakthrough point. It covers multiple fields including flow control, concurrency limiting, circuit breaking, and adaptive system protection.
    Downloads: 12 This Week
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    Apache Guacamole

    Apache Guacamole

    HTML5 Clientless Remote Desktop

    Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway. It supports standard protocols like VNC, RDP, and SSH. We call it clientless because no plugins or client software are required. Thanks to HTML5, once Guacamole is installed on a server, all you need to access your desktops is a web browser.
    Downloads: 40 This Week
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    ZK - Simply Ajax and Mobile
    Ajax+Mobile Java Web framework. With 200+ Ajax components and event-driven, Ajax/RIA apps are as effortless and rich as desktop apps and HTML/XUL pages. Support JSP/JSF/JavaEE/Spring, Ajax Push and Client-fusion; also Java/Groovy/Python/JavaScript.
    Downloads: 33 This Week
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    Mongoose Embedded Web Server

    Mongoose Embedded Web Server

    An embedded web server

    Mongoose is a networking library for C/C++. It implements event-driven non-blocking APIs for TCP, UDP, HTTP, WebSocket, MQTT. It is designed for connecting devices and bringing them online. On the market since 2004, used by vast number of open source and commercial products - it even runs on the International Space Station! Mongoose makes embedded network programming fast, robust, and easy. Cross-platform, works on Linux/UNIX, MacOS, Windows, Android, FreeRTOS, etc. Supported embedded architectures: ESP32, NRF52, STM32, NXP, and more. Built-in protocols: plain TCP/UDP, HTTP, MQTT, Websocket. SSL/TLS support: mbedTLS, OpenSSL or custom (via API). Used to solve a wide range of business needs, like implementing Web UI interface on devices, RESTful API services, telemetry data exchange, remote control for a product, remote software updates, remote monitoring, and others.
    Downloads: 7 This Week
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    LANraragi

    LANraragi

    Web application for archival and reading of manga/doujinshi

    LANraragi is a web application for archiving and reading manga/doujinshi. Lightweight and Docker-ready, it's designed for NAS and server environments, providing a user-friendly interface for managing comic collections.​
    Downloads: 6 This Week
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    IIPImage

    IIPImage

    IIPImage is an advanced high-performance image server and client

    IIPImage is a high performance image server and client for viewing, navigating and zooming within high resolution images on the internet. Images in TIFF or JPEG2000 format are efficiently streamed by the server to a choice of clients that can be embedded within a web page.
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    Downloads: 29 This Week
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    PyXB (“pixbee”) is a pure Python package that generates Python source code for classes that correspond to data structures defined by XMLSchema. In concept it is similar to JAXB for Java and CodeSynthesis XSD for C++.
    Downloads: 29 This Week
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    Amazon ECS Container Agent

    Amazon ECS Container Agent

    Amazon Elastic Container Service Agent

    Run highly secure, reliable, and scalable containers. Launch thousands of containers across the cloud using your preferred continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) and automation tools. Optimize your time with AWS Fargate serverless compute for containers, which eliminates the need to configure and manage control plane, nodes, and instances. Save up to 50 percent on compute costs with autonomous provisioning, auto-scaling, and pay-as-you-go pricing. Integrate seamlessly with AWS management and governance solutions, standardized for compliance with virtually every regulatory agency around the globe. Amazon ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service that makes it easy for you to deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications. Amazon ECS is a fully managed container orchestration service that helps you easily deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications. It deeply integrates with the rest of the AWS platform to provide a secure and easy-to-use solution.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    CloudServer

    CloudServer

    Zenko CloudServer open-source Node.js implementation of S3 protocol

    Zenko CloudServer, an open-source Node.js implementation of the Amazon S3 protocol on the front-end and backend storage capabilities to multiple clouds, including Azure and Google.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    RSS-Bridge

    RSS-Bridge

    The RSS feed for websites missing it

    The RSS feed for websites missing it.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    gRPC

    gRPC

    High performance, open source universal RPC framework

    gRPC is a C-based high performance remote procedure call (RPC) framework that can run in any environment. It efficiently connects services in and across data centers with plenty of support, and can also connect mobile devices and browser clients to backend services. Essentially, it makes it easier for you to create distributed applications and services.
    Downloads: 4 This Week
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    Algernon

    Algernon

    Small self-contained pure-Go web server with Lua, Markdown, HTTP/2

    Web server with built-in support for QUIC, HTTP/2, Lua, Teal, Markdown, Pongo2, HyperApp, Amber, Sass(SCSS), GCSS, JSX, BoltDB (built-in, stores the database in a file, like SQLite), Redis, PostgreSQL, MariaDB/MySQL, rate limiting, graceful shutdown, plugins, users and permissions. Written in Go. Uses Bolt (built-in), MySQL, PostgreSQL or Redis (recommended) for the database backend, permissions2 for handling users and permissions, gopher-Lua for interpreting and running Lua, optional Teal for type-safe Lua scripting, http2 for serving HTTP/2, QUIC for serving over QUIC, blackfriday for Markdown rendering, amber for Amber templates, Pongo2 for Pongo2 templates, Sass(SCSS) and GCSS for CSS preprocessing. logrus is used for logging, goja-babel for converting from JSX to JavaScript, tollbooth for rate limiting, pie for plugins and graceful for graceful shutdowns.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    Lighthouse

    Lighthouse

    Automated auditing, performance metrics, & best practices for the web

    Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool that analyzes and audits web apps and web pages in order to improve their quality. Lighthouse collects modern performance metrics and insights on developer best practices; auditing for performance, accessibility, SEO and more. After auditing it produces a report either in JSON or HTML. Included in the report is a reference doc that explains the importance of the audit and how to fix the problem areas, which you can use to improve the web app or web page. Lighthouse can be integrated directly into the Chrome DevTools with its own panel. To run it, you would simply have to select the Lighthouse panel and click on "Generate report". It can also be run from the command line, or as a Node module.
    Downloads: 3 This Week
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    CalemEAM is an open source enterprise asset management (EAM/CMMS) suite, featuring Web 2.0 Ajax client with drag-and-drop customization and a PHP based server. This free CMMS/EAM project can be used for industrial, facility and IT asset management.
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    Downloads: 38 This Week
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    NZBGet

    Efficient Usenet Downloader

    NZBGet is a usenet downloader, written in C++ and designed with performance in mind to achieve maximum download speed by using very little system resources. It supports all platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux and works on all devices including PC, NAS, WLAN routers and media players.
    Downloads: 12 This Week
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    Java JWT

    Java JWT

    Java implementation of JSON Web Token (JWT)

    A Java implementation of JSON Web Token (JWT) - RFC 7519. This library requires Java 8 or higher. The last version that supported Java 7 was 3.11.0. The library implements JWT Verification and Signing using several algorithms. The Algorithm defines how a token is signed and verified. It can be instantiated with the raw value of the secret in the case of HMAC algorithms, or the key pairs or KeyProvider in the case of RSA and ECDSA algorithms. Once created, the instance is reusable for token signing and verification operations. When using RSA or ECDSA algorithms and you just need to sign JWTs you can avoid specifying a Public Key by passing a null value. The same can be done with the Private Key when you just need to verify JWTs.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    OpenResty

    OpenResty

    High Performance Web Platform Based on Nginx and LuaJIT

    OpenResty is a full-fledged web application server that extends Nginx by seamlessly embedding LuaJIT, bundled Nginx core, numerous third-party modules, and Lua libraries—creating a powerful platform for scalable web services, APIs, and gateways.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    SWC

    SWC

    Rust-based platform for the Web

    SWC is an extensible Rust-based platform for the next generation of fast developer tools. It's used by tools like Next.js, Parcel, and Deno, as well as companies like Vercel, ByteDance, Tencent, Shopify, and more. SWC can be used for both compilation and bundling. For compilation, it takes JavaScript / TypeScript files using modern JavaScript features and outputs valid code that is supported by all major browsers. SWC is 20x faster than Babel on a single thread and 70x faster on four cores. SWC can be downloaded and used as a pre-built binary, or built from the source. SWC (stands for Speedy Web Compiler) is a super-fast TypeScript / JavaScript compiler written in Rust. It's a library for Rust and JavaScript at the same time. If you are using SWC from Rust, see rustdoc and for most users, your entry point for using the library will be parser. If you are using SWC from JavaScript, please refer to the docs on the website.
    Downloads: 2 This Week
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    Static Web Server

    Static Web Server

    A cross-platform, high-performance and asynchronous web server

    Static Web Server (or SWS abbreviated) is a tiny and fast production-ready web server suitable to serve static web files or assets. It is focused on lightness and easy-to-use principles while keeping high performance and safety powered by The Rust Programming Language. Written on top of Hyper and Tokio runtime, it provides concurrent and asynchronous networking abilities and the latest HTTP/1 - HTTP/2 implementations. Cross-platform and available for Linux, macOS, Windows, FreeBSD, NetBSD, Android, Docker and Wasm (via Wasmer).
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