[ianawilson]

Not exactly polyfill, although the idea is related.

Crowsnest is trying to help reduce boilerplate for IoT / device-driven applications. Crowsnest provides cloud infrastructure, two-way communication with your devices that works across a NAT, and an ecosystem of plugins for devices that will work out of the box. Interacting with all of this is abstracted into an API where all you need to know is that "it is a light" and you can use the cloud API to "turn it on." Crowsnest takes care of the NAT traversal and the actual calls to the light on the local network, so that you can focus on building your application, rather than maintaining device infrastructure and integration.

As pointed out in another comment, it's hard to compete with existing standards, but we hope to act as a super set as much as we can, making use of existing standards in our implementation.

[hardwaresofton]

Thanks for the clarification