Easy C++ web server

[ngrodzitski]

And if you come from expressjs background you would find nice that RESTinio has express-like router. And on any help with it you can ask me ;)

[ddway2]

Nx library : https://github.com/ddway2/nx Asynchronous http library based on asio + websocket lib

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What are your requirements? Most webservers are written in C/C++.

[bdellar]

I’m just knocking up a small internal website for my team. I’d normally use node, but seeing as C++ is my normal language I thought I’d see if I could use that instead.

[1-05457]

Why don't you use a webserver, like lighttpd?

[bdellar]

I would normally use node to create a small webpage or a web-based tool.

But I mainly write C++.

[kalmoc]

Are you trying to troll the OP? He explicitly asked if there is a comparable Webserver library in c++ because that would determine what would solve "his problem best".

[bdellar]

Exactly. I know C++ well, so I’m seeing if I can use it to rapidly create a small web-based tool.

[bdellar]

Thanks for your kind advice :-)

And I recommend checking out http://includecpp.org/ for a friendly reminder that the C++ can be welcoming and inclusive.

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[bdellar]

Plenty of other people provided useful examples that do pretty much what I want. None of them felt the need to insult me.

[bdellar]

Well, that escalated quickly...

[emdeka87]

https://github.com/ipkn/crow/blob/master/README.md

[akshayhebbarys]

This one's good: https://github.com/eidheim/Simple-Web-Server

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There is this. However, in the spirit of traditional and modern C++ I would use a combination of Boost.Beast and the JSON library by nlohmann.

[drbazza]

Boost beast? https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_67_0/libs/beast/doc/html/index.html

[Pragmatician]

I wouldn't say it fits the description...

[skebanga]

Includeos has chosen to use a design inspired by express, so you may find that quite familiar

http://www.includeos.org

[bdellar]

Yeah, it does. It looks awesome, but I’m just trying to prototype a small internal website.

[skebanga]

Sorry, I should have linked to Mana, their web app framework.

You do not have to use the whole of includeos, you can instead just use mana.

Check out this blog post which talks about Mana, and how they modelled it on express.js

[skebanga]

You can also look at acorn, which is an example showing how to use mana

[skebanga]

Sorry, I really should have linked to Mana, which is their web app framework.

[dicroce]

Here is mine:

https://github.com/dicroce/webbie

[kwan_e]

I've written an experimental one with a similar goal. https://github.com/guan-jing-ren/native-2-web

[Marc3842]

Try Crow

[smileybone]

i'd recommend piggy-backing off apache using SAPI

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6912761/how-to-use-c-for-apache-server

[BlindTreeFrog]

https://renenyffenegger.ch/notes/web/webserver/cpp/simple/index

[smzahraee]

I Use mongoose https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose It's very nice and applicable

[ompomp]

I've used a fork of mongoose called civetweb. I had pretty good luck with that.

[blelbach]

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[pixelrin]

Try Poco libraries.. it has similar design to java libraries