We're excited to announce that tusd, the reference server implementation of the tus resumable upload protocol, is now available in the Nix package manager! This milestone makes it significantly easier to install and use tusd on Linux and macOS systems.
The Node.js tus server can now run in all meta-frameworks and Node.js compatible
runtimes. Deprecated options have been removed, and the server is ESM-only. The
packages now require Node.js >=20.19.0, the release that backported
require(esm), allowing us to output ESM and import ESM packages without
affecting consumers on CommonJS. But that’s not all, so let’s dive in.
Exactly four years after the last major release of tusd, version 1.0.0, it is time for another big announcement: we are happy to say that tusd v2 is finished! The release is ready for production and has been battle tested at scale at Transloadit in the past months. tusd is our server implementation in Go for the tus resumable upload protocol.
The Node.js tus server has been revived and is now officially semver stable! It has been completely rewritten in TypeScript and was split into separate packages. There is a new system for events and hooks, as well as elaborate docs with examples. And those are just a few of the many fixes and features that we will dive into below.
In the past year, we have worked together with the HTTP working group inside the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to advance the state of resumable uploads and craft an official RFC for better file uploads over the internet. In this post, we share the latest developments from this journey.
tus is a protocol based on HTTP for resumable file uploads. Resumable here means that an interrupted upload can carry on without re-uploading already uploaded data again. An interruption may happen willingly, if the user wants to pause while switching to another workspace, or by accident in case of a network issue or server outage. When resumability is implemented with automatic retries, the user does not need to notice there was an interruption. Since HTTP/1.1 such a resumability is available for file downloads already but not for file uploads as tus offers.
Seven years ago, in November 2015,
