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30 open-source projects similar to nanohttpd/nanohttpd, ranked by shared indexed features. Tags may describe platforms or build tools rather than the same primary purpose. Check each project’s use case, license, and deployment requirements before treating it as a replacement.

  • yhirose/cpp-httplibyhirose avatar

    yhirose/cpp-httplib

    16,597View on GitHub↗

    This is a header-only C++ library that provides implementations for HTTP clients, HTTP servers, and a WebSocket framework. It allows for the creation of network services and the consumption of remote APIs without requiring a separate compilation step or external binary linking. The project features backend-agnostic TLS integration for secure HTTPS and WSS communication and employs a thread-pool model to process concurrent requests. It distinguishes itself with a full-duplex WebSocket state-machine and a middleware-based request pipeline that supports regular-expression path routing. The libr

    C++
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  • dodyg/practical-aspnetcoredodyg avatar

    dodyg/practical-aspnetcore

    10,382View on GitHub↗

    This project is a comprehensive sample library and implementation guide for ASP.NET Core. It provides a collection of practical examples and projects that demonstrate how to build web applications, RESTful APIs, and high-performance services. The repository focuses on a variety of architectural patterns, including the development of Minimal APIs, contract-first gRPC services, and real-time communication using WebSockets and Server-Sent Events. It includes detailed implementations for user identity and security, such as token-based authentication and CSRF protection. The codebase covers a bro

    C#asp-net-coreaspnet-coreaspnetcore
    View on GitHub↗10,382
  • ithewei/libhvithewei avatar

    ithewei/libhv

    7,521View on GitHub↗

    libhv is a high-performance C/C++ network library and event-driven I/O framework used to build TCP, UDP, SSL, HTTP, WebSocket, and MQTT clients and servers. It provides a non-blocking event loop for managing network sockets, timers, and system signals across multiple threads. The project is distinguished by its integrated support for specialized network roles, including a full HTTP web server with RESTful routing and middleware, an MQTT messaging client for IoT communication, and the ability to implement SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies. It also features a reliable UDP implementation to ensure ordered

    Ccurlepollhttp-client
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  • sanic-org/sanicsanic-org avatar

    sanic-org/sanic

    18,624View on GitHub↗

    Sanic is an asynchronous Python web framework designed for building high-performance APIs and services. It operates as a production-ready ASGI web server, utilizing a non-blocking event loop to handle concurrent requests and maximize throughput. The framework is built to support scalable architectures, offering built-in worker process management to distribute traffic across available CPU cores. What distinguishes Sanic is its focus on modularity and developer-centric tooling. It features a blueprint-based system for organizing complex applications into pluggable components, alongside a robust

    Pythonapi-serverasgiasyncio
    View on GitHub↗18,624
  • roadrunner-server/roadrunnerroadrunner-server avatar

    roadrunner-server/roadrunner

    8,473View on GitHub↗

    RoadRunner is a high-performance application server and process manager designed to serve PHP applications using a persistent worker model. It eliminates bootload overhead and initialization time by keeping application processes alive between requests, acting as a protocol-agnostic proxy that routes traffic to a pool of supervised workers. The server is built with a plugin-based modular architecture, allowing it to be extended with custom Go plugins and compiled into tailored binaries. It distinguishes itself by providing a unified execution model for a wide array of communication protocols,

    Goapplication-servergolanghacktoberfest
    View on GitHub↗8,473
  • ninenines/cowboyninenines avatar

    ninenines/cowboy

    7,513View on GitHub↗

    Cowboy is a high-performance HTTP server for Erlang and OTP. It is designed to handle web traffic with low memory usage and can be used as a standalone server or as an embedded networking library integrated directly into an existing application. The project implements modern transport protocols, including HTTP/3, QUIC, and WebTransport, to enable faster connections and bidirectional data streaming. It also functions as a real-time communication server supporting Server-Sent Events for pushing asynchronous updates to clients. Broad capabilities include path and content-type based request rout

    Erlang
    View on GitHub↗7,513
  • encode/starletteencode avatar

    encode/starlette

    12,397View on GitHub↗

    Starlette is an asynchronous web framework and toolkit for building high-performance web services based on the ASGI specification. It serves as a lightweight foundation for creating web applications with a focus on asynchronous request and response handling. The framework provides specialized toolkits for managing persistent bidirectional WebSocket communication and an asynchronous HTTP server toolkit for routing and middleware. It distinguishes itself by offering a non-blocking background task queue that executes functions after a response has been sent to the client. The project covers a b

    Python
    View on GitHub↗12,397
  • pallets/quartpallets avatar

    pallets/quart

    3,599View on GitHub↗

    Quart is an asynchronous Python web framework that implements the ASGI specification. It is used to build high-performance HTTP and WebSocket services, JSON REST APIs, and web applications using async and await syntax for non-blocking request handling. The framework supports persistent bidirectional communication via WebSocket API servers and enables the proactive delivery of assets through HTTP server push. It also includes a template engine for rendering dynamic HTML web pages and supports incremental request and response streaming to manage large payloads. General capabilities cover reque

    Pythonasgiasyncioflask
    View on GitHub↗3,599
  • kludex/starletteKludex avatar

    Kludex/starlette

    12,397View on GitHub↗

    Starlette is a lightweight ASGI web framework and asynchronous HTTP toolkit used to build high-performance HTTP and WebSocket services. It functions as a WebSocket server framework and a collection of ASGI middleware components for managing network requests through non-blocking asynchronous logic. The framework provides tools for real-time communication via persistent bidirectional channels and infrastructure for high-performance APIs. It includes specialized capabilities for response compression, incremental data streaming, and the execution of non-blocking background tasks after a response

    Pythonasgiasynchttp
    View on GitHub↗12,397
  • vibora-io/viboravibora-io avatar

    vibora-io/vibora

    5,592View on GitHub↗

    Vibora is an asynchronous Python web framework and built-in HTTP server designed for building high-performance web applications. It utilizes an asynchronous event loop and coroutines to process network requests and serve responses without requiring external server wrappers. The project features a high-performance asynchronous schema validator for request integrity, a non-blocking template engine with support for hot-reloading, and a WebSocket communication server for bidirectional real-time data exchange. The framework covers a broad range of capabilities, including modular route management

    Pythonasyncclientframework
    View on GitHub↗5,592
  • sparckles/robynsparckles avatar

    sparckles/Robyn

    7,265View on GitHub↗

    Robyn is a high-performance asynchronous web framework and server for Python that utilizes a Rust-powered runtime to execute code. It functions as an asynchronous Python web server designed to handle many concurrent requests efficiently through a multithreaded execution model. The project includes specialized capabilities for AI agent request routing, managing communication between agents and external tools. It also serves as a WebSocket communication server, maintaining persistent bidirectional channels for real-time data exchange. The framework covers a broad range of web infrastructure, i

    Pythonasyncbackendhacktoberfest
    View on GitHub↗7,265
  • javalin/javalinjavalin avatar

    javalin/javalin

    8,290View on GitHub↗

    Javalin is a lightweight web framework for Java and Kotlin designed for building REST APIs and web applications. It functions as an embedded Jetty web server, allowing applications to run as standalone processes without the need for an external servlet container. The project provides specialized frameworks for diverse communication patterns, including a REST API framework with automatic OpenAPI schema generation, a GraphQL API framework with query and mutation resolvers, and a WebSocket server for bidirectional real-time communication. It also includes a dedicated framework for pushing real-t

    Kotlinhacktoberfestjavajavalin
    View on GitHub↗8,290
  • oakserver/oakoakserver avatar

    oakserver/oak

    5,408View on GitHub↗

    Oak is a cross-runtime HTTP middleware framework and web server designed to operate across Deno, Node.js, Bun, and Cloudflare Workers. It provides a unified system for building APIs and web servers using a sequential chain of middleware functions and a hierarchical routing engine that maps URL paths to handlers via a nested tree structure. The framework includes a runtime-agnostic serverless adapter that translates diverse cloud provider events into a standard request and response interface. It also features a dedicated WebSocket server implementation for bidirectional real-time communication

    TypeScript
    View on GitHub↗5,408
  • hyperf/hyperfhyperf avatar

    hyperf/hyperf

    6,855View on GitHub↗

    Hyperf is a high-performance PHP coroutine framework designed for building microservices and middleware. It utilizes non-blocking coroutines to handle high concurrency and low-latency request processing, providing a foundation for scalable distributed systems. The framework is distinguished by an aspect-oriented programming based dependency injector that enables pluggable components and meta-programming. It includes a coroutine-optimized object-relational mapper with integrated model caching and an orchestration toolkit for microservice governance, featuring service discovery, circuit breaker

    PHP
    View on GitHub↗6,855
  • go-martini/martinigo-martini avatar

    go-martini/martini

    11,603View on GitHub↗

    Martini is a web framework for the Go programming language that provides a toolkit for building web applications. It functions as a routing engine and an HTTP middleware pipeline to map network requests to specific handler functions. The framework is distinguished by its dependency injection system, which automatically resolves and provides requested service types as arguments to handler functions. This allows for the decoupling of business logic from infrastructure by matching requested types against a registry of available services. The project covers a broad range of web capabilities, inc

    Go
    View on GitHub↗11,603
  • elysiajs/elysiaelysiajs avatar

    elysiajs/elysia

    18,531View on GitHub↗

    Elysia is a high-performance TypeScript web framework designed for building type-safe backend services. It provides a modular, plugin-based architecture that allows developers to compose server logic, middleware, and validation schemas into scalable application instances. By leveraging native web standards, the framework ensures portability across diverse JavaScript runtimes, including Node.js, Deno, and various edge computing environments. The framework distinguishes itself through its focus on end-to-end type safety, automatically synchronizing request and response definitions between the s

    TypeScriptbunframeworkhttp
    View on GitHub↗18,531
  • lukeed/polkalukeed avatar

    lukeed/polka

    5,585View on GitHub↗

    Polka is a minimalist Node.js web framework and HTTP routing engine. It provides a small-footprint server implementation designed for low overhead, mapping URL paths and HTTP methods to specific handler functions. The project utilizes a middleware-based architecture, processing requests through a sequence of functions to handle tasks such as logging, authorization, and data modification. It allows for the organization of these functions into global and path-filtered groups to control execution order. The framework covers core web capabilities including route parameter extraction, request URL

    JavaScript
    View on GitHub↗5,585
  • unetworking/uwebsocketsuNetworking avatar

    uNetworking/uWebSockets

    18,888View on GitHub↗

    uWebSockets is a high-performance networking engine providing an HTTP web server and a WebSocket server framework. It implements a multi-threaded event loop architecture to deploy isolated application instances across multiple CPU cores and includes an SSL/TLS network layer for secure, encrypted communication. The project features a dedicated WebSocket pub/sub engine for distributing messages to specific groups of connected clients. It optimizes network throughput through syscall corking to reduce kernel overhead and employs payload compression to minimize data transfer sizes. The system cov

    C++commercialcross-platformhttp
    View on GitHub↗18,888
  • quii/learn-go-with-testsquii avatar

    quii/learn-go-with-tests

    23,510View on GitHub↗

    This project is an educational platform and tutorial series designed to teach the Go programming language through the practice of test-driven development. It provides a structured path for developers to master language fundamentals, concurrency, and standard library usage by building functional applications in small, verifiable increments. The core methodology centers on the test-driven development cycle, where failing tests are written before implementation to define requirements and ensure code correctness. This approach is applied across a wide range of practical scenarios, including the c

    Gogogolangtdd
    View on GitHub↗23,510
  • httpswift/swifterhttpswift avatar

    httpswift/swifter

    4,018View on GitHub↗

    Swifter is a lightweight HTTP server engine and routing system written in the Swift programming language. It functions as a web server capable of handling network requests and delivering responses such as HTML and plain text. The project provides a Swift WebSocket server for establishing bidirectional real-time communication channels to exchange text and binary data. It also includes a static file server that maps URL paths to local directories for direct file system access. The engine manages HTTP request routing by mapping specific URL paths to handler functions for delivering dynamic cont

    Swift
    View on GitHub↗4,018
  • perwendel/spark-kotlinperwendel avatar

    perwendel/spark-kotlin

    983View on GitHub↗

    Spark-kotlin is a lightweight web framework for the Java Virtual Machine that provides a domain-specific language for building server-side applications. It functions as an HTTP request router, allowing developers to map URL patterns and request methods to functional handlers to process web traffic. The framework utilizes a static method-based syntax to configure the embedded server runtime and manage network connections. It supports real-time bidirectional communication through an event-driven lifecycle for web sockets, enabling the definition of handlers for connection events and incoming da

    Kotlin
    View on GitHub↗983
  • ezlippi/tinyhttpdEZLippi avatar

    EZLippi/Tinyhttpd

    12,153View on GitHub↗

    Tinyhttpd is a minimal HTTP web server designed to process requests, deliver static files, and execute CGI scripts via network sockets. It serves as an educational implementation for studying the fundamental mechanics of the HTTP protocol and network programming. The server supports the Common Gateway Interface to generate dynamic content by launching external programs as subprocesses. It manages these dynamic requests by redirecting data through pipes and system environment variables. The system provides capabilities for parsing HTTP request methods and URLs, mapping those requests to local

    C
    View on GitHub↗12,153
  • totaljs/frameworktotaljs avatar

    totaljs/framework

    4,365View on GitHub↗

    This is a full-stack web development framework for Node.js based on the model-view-controller architecture. It provides a comprehensive platform for building applications with an integrated dynamic view engine for HTML markup, a WebSocket communication server for bidirectional real-time messaging, and an embedded NoSQL database for persisting flexible data structures without external dependencies. The framework includes a background task processor that offloads computationally intensive operations to separate worker threads to maintain application responsiveness. It also features an internati

    JavaScript
    View on GitHub↗4,365
  • perwendel/sparkperwendel avatar

    perwendel/spark

    9,657View on GitHub↗

    Spark is a lightweight Java web framework and embedded server designed for building web applications with minimal boilerplate. It functions as an HTTP routing engine that maps URL paths and methods to handler functions, providing a specialized domain specific language for web development in Kotlin. The framework enables the implementation of REST APIs and web services through the definition of HTTP routes. It supports the extraction of dynamic path parameters and the transformation of response data into formats such as JSON. Additional capabilities include the ability to serve static files a

    Java
    View on GitHub↗9,657
  • aosabook/500linesaosabook avatar

    aosabook/500lines

    29,582View on GitHub↗

    This project is a software engineering educational resource providing a collection of canonical system implementations. It serves as a library of computer science case studies and polyglot code examples designed to demonstrate architectural tradeoffs and design patterns through concise versions of fundamental software components. The repository focuses on studying the implementation of core concepts such as consensus algorithms, interpreters, and database engines. It provides minimal versions of complex systems to facilitate the analysis of language design, data structure implementation, and

    JavaScript
    View on GitHub↗29,582
  • jorisvink/korejorisvink avatar

    jorisvink/kore

    3,825View on GitHub↗

    Kore is an event-driven web and WebSocket server framework designed for building high-performance web services and APIs in C or Python. It functions as a secure, concurrent application framework that utilizes non-blocking I/O and isolated worker processes to handle high-concurrency traffic. The project is distinguished by a security-first architecture that features OS-level process sandboxing, privilege separation, and the isolation of private encryption keys into dedicated processes. It enables zero-downtime deployments through dynamic module hot-reloading and provides automated TLS certific

    Ccframeworkhigh-performance
    View on GitHub↗3,825
  • olahol/melodyolahol avatar

    olahol/melody

    4,066View on GitHub↗

    Melody is a WebSocket server framework designed to upgrade HTTP connections into bidirectional streams. It functions as a session manager and binary streaming library that facilitates real-time data exchange between a server and multiple remote clients. The project features a broadcast engine that optimizes multi-client transmissions through wire-representation caching. It includes a dedicated session management system for attaching custom state to persistent network connections and an upgrade handler that validates handshake headers. The framework covers broad capability areas including eve

    Goexampleframeworkgo
    View on GitHub↗4,066
  • seanmonstar/warpseanmonstar avatar

    seanmonstar/warp

    10,245View on GitHub↗

    Warp is a Rust HTTP web framework designed for building high-performance web servers. It provides a system for managing request pipelines, implementing WebSocket servers for bidirectional communication, and serving static assets from the local filesystem. The framework is characterized by its use of type-safe request pipelines and routing. It utilizes a filter-based approach to extract and validate metadata from headers, query strings, and request bodies before they reach the application handler. Broad capability areas include HTTP API development, asynchronous task execution, and state-base

    Rustframeworkhttprust
    View on GitHub↗10,245
  • encode/uvicornencode avatar

    encode/uvicorn

    10,767View on GitHub↗

    Uvicorn is an ASGI web application host designed for asynchronous Python web development. It serves applications through a standardized asynchronous server gateway interface to handle non-blocking network traffic and high-concurrency requests. The server manages both HTTP and WebSocket traffic, including the handshaking process required to establish persistent, full-duplex communication channels for real-time data exchange. For development workflows, the project includes a hot-reload mechanism that monitors the filesystem for source code changes and automatically restarts the server process.

    Python
    View on GitHub↗10,767
  • gorilla/muxgorilla avatar

    gorilla/mux

    21,832View on GitHub↗

    This project is a request router and web framework for the Go programming language. It provides a toolkit for matching incoming HTTP network requests to specific handler functions by evaluating criteria such as URL paths, request methods, headers, and hostnames. The framework distinguishes itself through its flexible matching capabilities, which include support for regular expressions and dynamic variable extraction from URL segments. It allows developers to organize routes into logical hierarchies, share common path prefixes, and maintain a central registry of named routes to facilitate prog

    Gogogolanggorilla
    View on GitHub↗21,832