Projects sharing features with UWebSockets

h2o is a high-performance content delivery server and HTTP/3 web server. It functions as a network gateway and reverse proxy that forwards client requests to upstream servers to manage traffic flow and load. The project distinguishes itself as a protocol fuzzing tool, utilizing a testing framework to execute automated stress tests against network protocols to identify memory leaks and crashes. The server provides capabilities for secure web traffic management through encrypted data transmission and high-performance web serving across HTTP/1, HTTP/2, and HTTP/3. It includes tools for server r

This project is a Node.js WebSocket library that provides a high-performance client and server implementation for the WebSocket protocol. It functions as a transport layer for real-time bidirectional communication, supporting both UTF-8 strings and binary data transport through the use of TCP socket wrappers. The library enables the creation of WebSocket servers that manage full-duplex connections and broadcast messages to multiple clients, as well as WebSocket clients that establish persistent links to remote servers. It handles the protocol upgrade process via TCP-based handshake negotiatio

NanoHTTPD is a lightweight, embeddable HTTP server for Java applications. It allows developers to integrate web server capabilities directly into a Java project to handle incoming requests without requiring a standalone installation. The project provides specialized implementations for an HTTPS web server, a WebSocket server for bidirectional real-time communication, and a static file web server. These capabilities enable secure network traffic through SSL certificates and the delivery of local files with automatic MIME type detection. The server includes systems for request routing and hand

Drogon is a high-performance, cross-platform C++ framework designed for building asynchronous web services and server-side applications. It functions as a multi-threaded, event-driven server engine that manages concurrent network traffic and WebSocket connections with minimal latency. By leveraging non-blocking input/output and native code compilation, the framework provides a foundation for scalable applications that operate efficiently across diverse hardware architectures. The framework distinguishes itself through its compile-time template rendering, which transforms dynamic HTML views in

Beast is a C++ library for implementing low-level HTTP and WebSocket clients and servers. It functions as an asynchronous networking framework designed to compose non-blocking I/O operations and layered stream stacks for managing concurrent network traffic, specifically utilizing the Boost.Asio asynchronous model. The library provides a comprehensive implementation of the HTTP/1.1 and WebSocket protocols. For HTTP, it includes primitives for parsing and serializing messages with support for chunked transfer encoding, incremental body reading, and request pipelining. Its WebSocket implementati

This is a header-only C++ library and asynchronous network framework used to implement WebSocket clients and servers. It provides a full implementation of the WebSocket protocol, including handshakes, subprotocol negotiation, and frame parsing. The framework is distinguished by a policy-based transport layer and template-driven protocol negotiation, allowing the underlying network implementation to be swapped between raw buffers, streams, or custom policies. It supports per-message deflate compression to reduce data transmission volume and integrates Transport Layer Security for encrypted bid

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

Muduo is a C++11 event-driven network library and framework designed for building high-concurrency Linux servers. It provides a toolkit for implementing scalable network services and socket communication using non-blocking I/O and asynchronous event processing. The framework implements a multi-threaded TCP server architecture that distributes connection handling across multiple CPU threads to maximize server throughput. This is achieved through a one-loop-per-thread model and a reactor pattern implementation, which dispatch network events from a central demultiplexer to registered handler fun

Gevent is a Python coroutine concurrency library and asynchronous task manager designed for high-concurrency I/O tasks. It provides a cooperative networking framework for building asynchronous TCP, UDP, and HTTP servers, as well as a WSGI web server implementation for hosting web applications. The project is distinguished by its standard library monkey-patching tool, which replaces blocking synchronous functions with cooperative versions to enable asynchronous behavior in third-party code. This allows for a cooperative multitasking workflow where the system yields execution during I/O waits t

Pingora is a Rust-based framework for building high-performance network services, including HTTP reverse proxies, layer seven load balancers, and TLS termination proxies. It serves as an asynchronous network library designed to intercept and route HTTP, gRPC, and WebSocket traffic between clients and upstream backend servers. The project enables zero-downtime service updates by handing over listening sockets between processes during binary or configuration upgrades. It utilizes a programmable multi-phase pipeline to modify request and response bodies and headers, and it provides a pluggable T

Highly scalable realtime pub/sub and RPC framework

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

Japronto is an asynchronous web framework and Python HTTP server toolkit. It functions as a multi-worker HTTP server and request router, utilizing non-blocking asynchronous handlers to manage high concurrency and throughput. The project implements a master-multiworker forking model to distribute network traffic across multiple CPU cores. It incorporates a fast event loop and a specialized C-extension for high-speed HTTP request parsing, while supporting request pipelining over single TCP connections. The framework covers a broad range of request handling capabilities, including URL pattern r

GCDWebServer is a lightweight HTTP 1.1 server for iOS, macOS, and tvOS. It serves as an embedded network server for Apple platforms, allowing developers to handle incoming requests through custom synchronous or asynchronous handlers. The project includes a WebDAV server implementation for remote file management, directory browsing, and synchronization using standard network clients. It also provides a web-based file manager that enables users to upload, download, and organize files within an application sandbox via a browser. Additional capabilities include gzip compression, JSON processing,

uWebSockets.js is a high-performance tool for building WebSocket and HTTP servers within Node.js. It focuses on high-throughput web servers and real-time data streaming, enabling the creation of network applications that handle a large number of concurrent connections with low memory and CPU overhead. The project distinguishes itself through a native C++ implementation that integrates directly with the Node.js event loop. It utilizes native-layer route matching and a shared memory architecture to minimize allocation overhead and avoid data duplication during message transmission. The impleme

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

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

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

Fasthttp is a high-performance networking framework for Go, designed to maximize throughput and minimize memory overhead in demanding web applications. It functions as a specialized HTTP server and client library that prioritizes efficient resource management, allowing developers to build scalable services capable of handling massive concurrent traffic with minimal garbage collection pressure. The library distinguishes itself through a focus on zero-allocation processing and low-level optimization. It achieves this by recycling temporary request and response objects through managed pools and

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

Hyper is a low-level networking library designed for building high-performance HTTP clients and servers. It provides a foundational toolkit for creating network services that leverage asynchronous execution and memory-safe data handling, supporting both HTTP/1 and HTTP/2 protocols. The library distinguishes itself through a protocol-agnostic architecture that separates transport logic from HTTP semantics. It utilizes a service-trait abstraction to decouple network logic from the underlying transport, enabling developers to inject custom middleware for request interception and response transfo

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

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,

MQTT.js is a JavaScript client library and asynchronous messaging client used to connect to message brokers and exchange data via the MQTT protocol. It provides a broker interface for publishing and subscribing to topics, and includes a command-line interface for interacting with brokers without writing code. The library supports multiple network layers, including TCP, TLS, and WebSockets, and allows for custom WebSocket construction and transport injection to handle specific headers or subprotocols. It implements bandwidth reduction through topic aliasing, which replaces repetitive topic str

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

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

Spin is a WebAssembly serverless framework and development toolchain for building and running portable microservices. It functions as an event-driven orchestrator and runtime that executes WebAssembly components, allowing developers to map HTTP requests, Redis messages, and cron schedules to specific modules. The project distinguishes itself by implementing a Wasm-based AI inference gateway, enabling components to perform model inference and generate text embeddings. It utilizes the WebAssembly Component Model and WASI for language-agnostic composition and portable host interfacing, while emp