johanhelsing/matchbox

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1148 stars · 113 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Matchbox is a Rust library and toolset for painless peer-to-peer WebRTC networking targeting both wasm/browser and native applications. It provides a socket abstraction, a signaling server library, a ready-to-use full-mesh signaling server, and a Bevy game engine integration.

Use cases

• build low-latency multiplayer browser games with p2p WebRTC connections
• add udp-like unreliable networking to Rust wasm games
• create reliable or unreliable data channels between peers in Rust
• run a self-hosted WebRTC signaling server for matchmaking
• integrate p2p networking with Bevy and GGRS for rollback netcode
• connect 2-4 players directly in a web game without a game server

When to choose

• you're building multiplayer games in Rust that run in the browser via wasm
• you need low-latency, udp-like p2p connections with configurable reliability
• you use Bevy and want rollback netcode via GGRS over WebRTC
• you want a simple, self-hostable signaling server

When to avoid

• you need client-server authoritative networking rather than peer-to-peer
• you're not using Rust or don't target wasm/native Rust apps
• you need TURN relay infrastructure or large-scale mesh topologies out of the box
• your game engine isn't Bevy and you need engine-specific integrations

Facets

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p2p networking websocket sdk game-engine web-development networking gaming-tools cross-platform wasm browser rust cross-platform self-hosted webrtc signaling-server multiplayer-games bevy ggrs udp-like-sockets wasm-bindgen game-development web-server

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