A high performance, middleware oriented C++14 http web framework. [MIT]

Silicon alternatives and similar libraries

Based on the "Networking" category

• uWebSockets

  9.5 9.1 Silicon VS uWebSockets

  µWS is one of the most lightweight, efficient & scalable WebSocket & HTTP server implementations available. [Zlib]

• µWebSockets

  9.4 9.3 Silicon VS µWebSockets

  Tiny WebSockets

• RakNet

  9.3 0.0 Silicon VS RakNet

  A cross platform, open source, C++ networking engine for game programmers. [BSD]

• libwebsockets

  8.8 9.3 L2 Silicon VS libwebsockets

  Libwebsockets is a lightweight pure C library built to use minimal CPU and memory resources, and provide fast throughput in both directions as client or server

• Muduo

  8.7 3.9 L4 Silicon VS Muduo

  A C++ non-blocking network library for multi-threaded server in Linux. [BSD]

• WebSocket++

  8.7 0.6 L2 Silicon VS WebSocket++

  C++/Boost Asio based websocket client/server library. [BSD]

• libcurl

  8.6 9.7 L2 Silicon VS libcurl

  Multiprotocol file transfer library. [MIT/X derivate license]

• evpp

  8.2 2.1 Silicon VS evpp

  C++ high performance networking with TCP/UDP/HTTP protocols. [BSD]

• nghttp2

  8.0 7.9 L1 Silicon VS nghttp2

  nghttp2 - HTTP/2 C Library and tools

• KCP

  7.9 6.0 Silicon VS KCP

  KCP - A Fast and Reliable ARQ Protocol

• Proxygen

  7.8 9.9 L4 Silicon VS Proxygen

  Facebook's collection of C++ HTTP libraries including an easy to use HTTP server. [BSD]

• wdt

  7.8 5.6 Silicon VS wdt

  An embeddedable library (and command line tool) aiming to transfer data between 2 systems as fast as possible over multiple TCP paths. [BSD-3-Clause]

• Simple-Web-Server

  7.7 5.3 L4 Silicon VS Simple-Web-Server

  A very simple, fast, multithreaded, platform independent HTTP and HTTPS server and client library implemented using C++11 and Boost.Asio. Created to be an easy way to make REST resources available from C++ applications.

• boost.beast(new repo)

  7.7 9.5 Silicon VS boost.beast(new repo)

  HTTP and WebSocket built on Boost.Asio in C++11

• cpp-netlib

  7.6 2.9 L2 Silicon VS cpp-netlib

  A collection of open-source libraries for high level network programming. [Boost]

• Mongoose

  7.4 6.2 L3 Silicon VS Mongoose

  Extremely lightweight webserver. [GPL2]

• C++ REST SDK

  7.0 7.4 L1 Silicon VS C++ REST SDK

  C++ REST SDK (previously named Casablanca). [Apache2]

• Onion

  6.9 2.0 L4 Silicon VS Onion

  HTTP server library in C designed to be lightweight and easy to use. [Apache2/GPL2]

• Simple-WebSocket-Server

  6.9 0.0 L4 Silicon VS Simple-WebSocket-Server

  A very simple, fast, multithreaded, platform independent WebSocket (WS) and WebSocket Secure (WSS) server and client library implemented using C++11, Boost.Asio and OpenSSL. Created to be an easy way to make WebSocket endpoints in C++.

• libquic

  6.7 0.0 Silicon VS libquic

  A QUIC protocol library extracted from Chromium's QUIC Implementation. [BSD]

• POCO

  6.7 8.1 L2 Silicon VS POCO

  C++ class libraries and frameworks for building network- and internet-based applications that run on desktop, server, mobile and embedded systems. [Boost] website

• Boost.Beast

  6.7 9.2 Silicon VS Boost.Beast

  HTTP and WebSocket implementations built on Boost.Asio

• cpr

  6.6 4.8 L2 Silicon VS cpr

  A modern C++ HTTP requests library with a simple but powerful interface. Modeled after the Python Requests module. [MIT] website

• Restbed

  6.5 3.4 L4 Silicon VS Restbed

  C++11 Asynchronous RESTful framework. [AGPL]

• Dyad.c

  6.3 0.0 L3 Silicon VS Dyad.c

  Asynchronous networking for C. [MIT]

• PcapPlusPlus

  5.9 9.0 Silicon VS PcapPlusPlus

  multiplatform C++ network packet sniffing and crafting library

• nope.c

  5.9 0.0 L1 Silicon VS nope.c

  A C language-based ultra-light software platform for scalable server-side and networking applications. Think node.js for C programmers. [GPL2]

• net_skeleton

  5.5 0.0 L3 Silicon VS net_skeleton

  TCP client/server library for C/C++. [GPL2]

• Tufão

  5.2 0.7 L2 Silicon VS Tufão

  An asynchronous web framework for C++ built on top of Qt. [LGPL2]

• curlcpp

  5.2 1.2 Silicon VS curlcpp

  An object oriented C++ wrapper for CURL(libcurl). [MIT]

• Seasocks

  4.4 7.2 Silicon VS Seasocks

  Simple, small, C++ embeddable webserver with WebSockets support. [BSD]

• netcode.io

  4.2 6.0 Silicon VS netcode.io

  A simple protocol for secure client/server connections over UDP

• RESTinio

  3.9 9.3 Silicon VS RESTinio

  A header-only C++14 library that gives you an embedded HTTP/Websocket server

• netLink

  3.3 1.3 L1 Silicon VS netLink

  Msgpack / Socket Library

• tntnet

  2.7 5.8 L1 Silicon VS tntnet

  Tntnet is a web application server for web applications written in C++.

• bredis

  2.4 6.6 Silicon VS bredis

  Boost::ASIO low-level redis client (connector)

• Breep

  2.3 4.2 Silicon VS Breep

  Event based, high-level C++14 peer-to-peer library. [EUPL-1.1 (OSI approved)]

• IXWebSocket

  2.1 9.5 Silicon VS IXWebSocket

  C++ library for client and server Websocket communication

• crispy-fortnight

  1.2 0.3 Silicon VS crispy-fortnight

  This my first repository in github

• libjingle

  - - Silicon VS libjingle

  Google talk voice and P2P interoperability library. [BSD]

• ACE

  - - Silicon VS ACE

  An OO Network Programming Toolkit in C++. [?MIT?]

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