ipkn/crow
Crow
Crow is a minimalist C++ micro web framework designed for building fast web servers and REST APIs. It provides a lightweight toolkit for web development in C++, offering core routing and request handling capabilities.
The framework includes a built-in JSON parser for converting strings into structured data and an HTML template engine for generating dynamic web pages on the server. It also functions as a WebSocket server library to enable bidirectional, real-time communication between servers and web clients.
Additional capabilities include a middleware-based request pipeline for executing shared logic and a handler-based dispatch system that uses typed parameter mapping to route incoming HTTP requests.
Features
- C++ Web Frameworks - Provides a high-performance minimalist web framework for building servers and REST APIs using C++.
- Micro-frameworks - Provides a minimalist C++ micro web framework inspired by Flask for lightweight routing and request handling.
- Request-Response Middleware - Allows developers to intercept requests and responses to execute shared logic like authentication and logging.
- WebSocket Servers - Provides a server-side implementation for managing persistent, bidirectional WebSocket communication channels.
- Real-Time Web Communication - Enables real-time web communication through bidirectional WebSocket connections for live data exchange.
- Request Middleware - Enables the injection of custom logic into the request-response cycle to handle cross-cutting concerns.
- Request Middleware - Provides a middleware pipeline for intercepting and processing HTTP requests before they reach the application controller.
- Request Routing - Implements request routing to direct incoming network requests to appropriate handler functions.
- REST API Frameworks - Provides a framework for building structured HTTP endpoints that return serialized JSON data for REST APIs.
- HTTP Routing - Provides mechanisms for directing incoming HTTP traffic to specific handlers based on request methods and paths.
- JSON Parsers - Ships a built-in JSON parser for converting strings into structured data.
- JSON Serialization - Includes built-in utilities for converting data objects to and from JSON for network transmission.
- Type-Safe Parameter Mapping - Automatically parses URL parameters into C++ types to ensure request handlers receive correctly typed arguments.
- HTML Template Renderers - Ships a server-side rendering engine that merges data with predefined HTML templates to generate dynamic pages.
- HTML Templating Engines - Includes a templating engine that processes structured templates to generate dynamic HTML content.
- Handler Dispatchers - Implements a dispatch system that routes incoming HTTP requests to specific handler functions based on URL patterns.
- Server-Side Rendering - Implements server-side rendering to generate static HTML markup from dynamic data before transmission.
- Web Frameworks - Micro-framework for web development inspired by Flask.
- Web - Listed in the “Web应用框架” section of the Awesome Cpp Cn awesome list.
