an-tao/drogon
Drogon
Drogon is a high-performance C++ HTTP web framework and asynchronous web server designed for building web applications and REST APIs. It utilizes an event-driven, non-blocking architecture to handle concurrent HTTP and WebSocket connections, and it implements a model-view-controller structure to separate business logic from presentation.
The framework includes an integrated C++ object-relational mapping system and database client for performing asynchronous operations with relational databases and Redis key-value stores. It supports real-time, full-duplex communication via WebSockets and provides a template-based engine for rendering dynamic HTML content.
The project covers a broad range of backend capabilities, including request routing, filter-chain middleware for authentication and validation, and user session management. It also features network traffic compression, HTTPS encryption, and a plugin system for extending runtime functionality.
A command line tool is provided for application scaffolding to generate project boilerplate and controllers. The software supports cross-platform compilation and deployment across Linux, macOS, Unix, and Windows.
Features
- C++ Web Frameworks - Provides a high-performance C++ framework for building scalable web applications and REST APIs.
- Web Application Frameworks - Serves as a high-performance C++ framework for building scalable web applications with integrated routing and security.
- Asynchronous Database Drivers - Includes database connectors designed for non-blocking, asynchronous data operations to maintain high concurrency.
- C++ Object Relational Mappers - Includes an integrated C++ ORM and database client for asynchronous operations with relational databases and Redis.
- Object-Relational Mapping - Provides a lightweight ORM to persist application objects by mapping them to relational database tables.
- C++ - Features a lightweight mapping layer that binds database table rows directly to C++ objects.
- WebSocket Clients and Servers - Provides toolkits for managing persistent, bidirectional WebSocket connections for real-time data exchange.
- Network Request Processing - Uses a non-blocking event-driven architecture to process a large volume of concurrent network requests efficiently.
- Controller-Based Routing - Utilizes an architectural pattern that maps URL paths to specific class methods to decouple endpoints from business logic.
- MVC Frameworks - Implements the Model-View-Controller pattern to separate business logic from HTML template rendering.
- Event-Driven I/O - Uses an event-driven non-blocking I/O architecture to handle high volumes of concurrent network connections.
- Asynchronous Request Handlers - Processes concurrent web requests using non-blocking execution to maximize system throughput.
- HTTP Application Frameworks - Provides a framework for orchestrating middleware stacks to process HTTP requests and responses for C++ web services.
- HTTP Servers - Implements a high-performance HTTP server engine designed to handle and route web traffic using an event-driven architecture.
- RESTful API Development - Provides specialized capabilities for building structured RESTful API endpoints using standard HTTP methods.
- HTTP Routing - Implements a flexible routing system to map HTTP request paths and methods to specific controller handlers.
- WebSocket Communication - Supports full-duplex, bidirectional real-time communication between clients and servers via WebSockets.
- JSON Data Exchange - Provides integrated support for processing and returning data in JSON format for web service integration.
- Key-Value Stores - Supports asynchronous read and write operations against Redis key-value stores for high-performance state management.
- Cross-Platform Deployment Targets - Supports compiling and running backend services across diverse operating systems including Linux, macOS, Unix, and Windows.
- Real-Time Web Communication - Supports full-duplex WebSocket connections for real-time, bidirectional data exchange between the server and clients.
- Session Management - Tracks and maintains persistent user state and session contexts across multiple web requests using cookies.
- Security & HTTPS - Supports HTTPS encryption to ensure secure, authenticated communication between the client and server.
- Plugin Extenders - Allows loading of custom external libraries at runtime to augment core system functionality.
- Plugin-Based Architectures - Implements a plugin-based architecture allowing the loading of external modules at startup via configuration.
- HTML Template Renderers - Ships a server-side rendering engine that merges dynamic data with HTML templates.
- HTML Templating Engines - Implements a template-based engine to generate dynamic HTML content by combining data with logic tags.
- Middleware Chains - Implements a sequence of middleware interceptors for handling request authentication and validation.
- Request Handler Chains - Provides a filter-chain middleware system to execute unified logic like authentication before requests reach the final handler.
- Web Development - High-performance HTTP application framework.
- Web Frameworks - High-performance HTTP application framework for C++17/20.
- Web and Networking - High-performance HTTP application framework.
- Web - Listed in the “Web应用框架” section of the Awesome Cpp Cn awesome list.
