Open Source

The founders of Transloadit met as contributors to an open source project. As a result of this, open source is deeply ingrained in our company’s DNA. Here’s a quick tour of our contributions.

If you are looking for commercial support self-hosting our open source software, please see our Open Source Support Plans.

Projects

Here are a few of our open source projects that you may have used knowingly or unknowingly.

BASH3 Boilerplate

BASH3 Boilerplate combines easy-to-use templates with our best practices.

Tus

Tus is an open protocol for resumable file uploads. It has quickly become the standard for resumable and reliable file uploading across the web.

Uppy

Uppy is a next-gen JavaScript file uploader that will transform how the world uploads files in web browsers.

node-formidable

Node Formidable is the industry standard for dealing with form uploads in the Node.js ecosystem.

node-mysql

Node MySQL is the industry standard for talking to MySQL databases in the Node.js ecosystem.

node-retry

Node Retry is a crucial building block for creating reliable software. NPM itself greatly depends upon it.

Sponsorships

Current

Transloadit currently allocates $34,666.00 of revenue per month to open source development and fostering its communities.

FFmpeg
Since Feb 2011
Paying core devs bugfix/feature bounties, and custom builds
Tus
Since Apr 2013
Started and fostered by Transloadit
Uppy
Since Nov 2015
Started and fostered by Transloadit
Node.js
Since Dec 2021
20% time to work on Node.js for employed TSC members
Zod
Since Feb 2023
Monetary support
Nix Community
Since Jan 2024
Monetary support
Vite
Since Jan 2024
Monetary support
zig
Since May 2024
Monetary support
Biome
Since Jul 2024
Monetary support