glock45/swifter
Swifter
Swifter is a lightweight HTTP server engine and networking library for the Swift programming language. It provides a minimal networking layer designed for hosting internal web services, building server-side applications, and implementing custom HTTP servers.
The project enables the creation of embedded web services for remote control or status monitoring and supports lightweight web hosting with a minimal footprint.
Its capabilities cover the management of raw TCP connections and network sockets, using a request-response cycle to parse incoming data into HTTP requests and map them to handler functions.
Features
- Embedded Web Servers - Provides a minimal networking layer as an embedded HTTP server component for internal application management.
- Server Side Swift - Enables the creation of server-side applications and APIs with a minimal footprint using Swift.
- Embedded Web Servers - Provides a lightweight web server for embedding remote control and status monitoring interfaces into applications.
- Swift Networking Libraries - Provides a low-level toolkit for building custom HTTP servers and managing network sockets natively in Swift.
- TCP Socket Programming - Provides a native Swift implementation for TCP socket programming and raw data stream management.
- HTTP Request Callbacks - Implements routing using closure-based callbacks to handle incoming HTTP requests.
- HTTP Request and Response Handlers - Provides the core logic for processing raw HTTP request streams and generating corresponding responses.
- HTTP Server Implementations - Implements the core logic for listening on network ports and managing HTTP request-response cycles.
- HTTP Servers - Implements a lightweight core server engine for routing and serving web traffic via the HTTP protocol.
- Web Servers - Ships a lightweight server for handling HTTP requests and serving web content.
- Buffer-Based Memory Management - Uses raw binary buffers to manage request and response data for high-performance memory efficiency.
- Blocking Request Handlers - Processes incoming HTTP requests sequentially on a blocking thread.
- Stateless Request Processing - Implements a stateless request processing architecture where each transaction is handled independently.
- Lightweight Web Frameworks - Provides a minimalist framework for rapid development of lightweight web services in Swift.
- HTTP Networking - HTTP server engine.
- Development Frameworks - Framework for building web-based services.
- Example Applications - A lightweight HTTP server engine for network applications.
