HTTP/3 and raw QUIC client/server APIs for Node.js
Details
- External ID
- 48449498
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- HTTP/3 and raw QUIC client/server APIs for Node.js
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- June 8, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 16
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7151639344262295
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- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I built this because I wanted to make outbound and accept inbound HTTP/3 and raw QUIC connections from ordinary Node.js code, without building Node from source or putting everything behind a reverse proxy.Repo: https://github.com/currentspace/http3 npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@currentspace/http3It’s a native package around Rust/quiche. It supports both client and server APIs, I'm using it in a couple of projects: creating raw QUIC streams, datagrams, custom ALPN, session behavior, and HTTP/3 client work from Node.I've tried to be very safe in the native code, written in rust, with proofs around the parts I was most concerned about getting wrong. I have it hosting a couple of sites as HTTP3 endpoints and found it working well.
Enrichment
- Theme
- proxy, dns, and networking tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- http/3 and quic client/server for node.js
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial Wrapping an established C/C++ QUIC library like nghttp3/ngtcp2 as a Node.js native addon is achievable, but handling memory management, non-blocking asynchronous event loops, and QUIC stream lifecycles requires specialized native systems knowledge.
What it would actually take: The architecture relies on Node-API (N-API) binding a battle-tested C library (such as ngtcp2/nghttp3 or Cloudflare's Quiche) to Node's libuv event loop. The challenging elements are zero-copy buffer transfers between JavaScript and native memory, handling UDP socket polling without blocking, and managing connection state machines across threads.
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