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  5. Bytescale vs Paperclip

Bytescale vs Paperclip

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Overview

Paperclip
Paperclip
Stacks206
Followers44
Votes0
GitHub Stars9.0K
Forks2.4K
Bytescale
Bytescale
Stacks12
Followers19
Votes21

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Detailed Comparison

Paperclip
Paperclip
Bytescale
Bytescale

It is intended as an easy file attachment library for ActiveRecord. The intent behind it was to keep setup as easy as possible and to treat files as much like other attributes as possible.

Bytescale is the best way to serve images, videos, and audio for web apps. Includes: Fast CDN, Storage, and Media Processing APIs.

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Image Processing APIs; Video Processing APIs; Audio Processing APIs; Fast CDN; Permanent Cache Layer; CDN Mode (Process External Files via HTTP); External Storage Support (S3, R2, GCP, DigitalOcean); Beautiful dashboard and charts; REST APIs; Lightweight JavaScript SDK; File Upload Widget; Custom domain (CNAME) support; Authenticated URLs
Statistics
GitHub Stars
9.0K
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Forks
2.4K
GitHub Forks
-
Stacks
206
Stacks
12
Followers
44
Followers
19
Votes
0
Votes
21
Pros & Cons
No community feedback yet
Pros
  • 3
    Easy setup
  • 3
    CDN Included
  • 3
    Lightweight JS SDK
  • 2
    No branding
  • 2
    Serverless
Integrations
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Vue.js
Vue.js
TypeScript
TypeScript
React
React
jQuery
jQuery
Angular
Angular

What are some alternatives to Paperclip, Bytescale?

Uploadcare

Uploadcare

Uploadcare is file management platform and a CDN for user-generated content. It is a robust file API for uploading, managing, processing, rendering, optimizing, and delivering users’ content.

Transloadit

Transloadit

Transloadit handles file uploading & file processing for your websites and mobile apps. We can process video, audio, images and documents.

Uppy

Uppy

Uppy is a sleek modular file uploader for web browsers. Add it to your app with one line of code, or build a custom version with just the plugins you need via Webpack/Browserify. 100% open source, backed by a company (Transloadit).

Filestack

Filestack

Filepicker helps developers connect to their users' content. Connect, Store, and Process any file from anywhere on the Internet.

CarrierWave

CarrierWave

This gem provides a simple and extremely flexible way to upload files from Ruby applications. It works well with Rack based web applications, such as Ruby on Rails.

FilePond

FilePond

A JavaScript library that can upload anything you throw at it, optimizes images for faster uploads and offers a great, accessible, silky smooth user experience.

Shrine

Shrine

Shrine implements a plugin system analogous to Roda’s and Sequel’s. Shrine ships with over 25 plugins, which together provide a great arsenal of features. Where CarrierWave and other file upload libraries favor complex class-level DSLs, Shrine favours simple instance-level interface.

tus.io

tus.io

Open protocol for resumable file uploads

CameraTag

CameraTag

With one line of code you can easily start collecting videos for applications ranging from video-comments to talent competitions, political action, virtual interviews, talent scouting and more.<br>

Flatfile

Flatfile

The drop-in data importer that implements in hours, not weeks. Give your users the import experience you always dreamed of, but never had time to build.

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