What is hyperdrive and how is it different from dat?

Question

I have been trying to peek recently, and I am interested to know about the difference between dat and hyperdrive .

Answer 1

TL; DR: Dat for end users and Hyperdrive for developers.

Dat is a convenient interface for sharing distributed files. Any user can download the program and use it to securely exchange files between peers.

Under the hood, it uses Hyperdrive , which is a Node.js package that is designed to implement the same APIs as Node.js' core fs, but it also offers data replication features.

There is also a dat-node module to use the Dat functions in your own Node.js applications. With dat-w633> it’s even easier than with Hyperdrive (a little less flexible) to connect your own Node.js application to a distributed network.

If you compare the documentation for Hyperdrive and the dat-node, you will quickly find the simplified interface that the dat-node provides.