dinzawtani / gigadrop

A Progressive Web App for local file sharing

Gigadrop

Gigadrop: local file sharing in your browser - inspired by Apple's Airdrop.

Gigadrop (Version 2) is built with the following awesome technologies:

• Vanilla HTML5 / ES6 / CSS3
• Progressive Web App
• WebRTC
• WebSockets fallback
• NodeJS
• Material Design

What about the connection? Is it a P2P-connection directly from device to device or is there any third-party-server?

It uses a P2P connection if WebRTC is supported by the browser. (WebRTC needs a Signaling Server, but it is only used to establish a connection and is not involved in the file transfer).

What about privacy? Will files be saved on third-party-servers?

None of your files are ever sent to any server. Files are sent only between peers. Gigadrop doesn't even use a database. If you are curious have a look at the Server. Even if Gigadrop was able to view the files being transfered, WebRTC encrypts the files on transit, so the server would be unable to read them.

What about security? Are my files encrypted while being sent between the computers?

Yes. Your files are sent using WebRTC, which encrypts them on transit.

Gigadrop is awesome! How can I support it?

• File bugs, give feedback, submit suggestions
• Share Gigadrop on your social media.
• Fix bugs and make a pull request.
• Do security analysis and suggestions

''' git clone https://github.com/dinzawtani/Gigadrop.git cd Gigadrop docker-compose up -d '''