According to the latest tfb results, ffead-cpp [embedded+v-picov] is currently the 20th fastest web/http/sql framework in the world Latest Techempower benchmarks
ffead-cpp is a web-framework, application framework, utilities all bundled into one. It also provides an embedded HTTP/Web-Socket compliant high-performance server core. It is a collection of modules all geared towards performing individual roles which together form the cohesive back-bone of ffead-cpp.
It provides a very simple to use and maintain web-framework library with advanced features like Reflection, Dependency Injection (IOC), Inbuilt REST/SOAP support, Security/Authentication features. Moreover implementation for interfacing to caching tools like Memcached/Redis are provided in-built. Database integration/ORM framework (SDORM) solves all major issues with respect to interfacing with SQL/No-SQL database alike.
Multi-level serialization or template level serialization is a high point of ffead-cpp core serialization run-time. Any C++ POCO class can be marked as serializable and the run-time will take care of marshalling/un-marshalling the object to its intended serializable form and back(JSON/XML/BINARY).
ffead-cpp can be easily driven by XML configuration, Services/Controllers/Filters/Interfaces/API(s) are all simple POCO classes without any need for them to extend any classes. The differentiating feature in ffead-cpp is the usage/implementation/support for markers (Annotations in java). Simple #pragma directives can now be used to drive the entire configuration in ffead-cpp, so you can just forget XML configuration.
All in all ffead-cpp is the gap in the world of C++ web application or enterprise application development which I have tried to fill with my humble/honest effort.
cmake, autoconf, meson, xmake, scons, shellb, bazel and buck2 builds are supported
Detailed OS specific instructions, instructions for installing the available server backends and docker/docker-compose scripts are located at docker
Build validated for the following Operating systems/Toolchains
- Multiple server backends (HTTP 1.1/HTTP 2/HTTP 3)
embedded (HTTP1.1) nghttp2 (HTTP2) quiche (HTTP3) seastar apache cinatra (c++) lithium (c++) drogon (c++) libreactor (c) h2o (c) vweb (vlang) picov (vlang) actix (rust) hyper (rust) thruster (rust) h2o.cr (crystal) crystal-http (crystal) fasthttp (golang) gnet (golang) firenio (java) rapidoid (java) wizzardo-http (java) hunt (d) swift-nio (swift) http.jl (julia) uv-cpp (c++) CppServer (c++) nginx nodejs (javascript) openlitespeed (WIP) - Support for multiple I/O event notification engines,
- io_uring - Linux kernel >= 5.6
- epoll - Linux
- kqueue - BSD/MacOS
- event_ports/devpoll - Solaris
- wepoll - Windows (IOCP based epoll library)
- poll/select - On all platforms that support these API's
- Embedded HTTP Server with single process and thread-pool backends
- SSL/TLS support
- Web Socket Support
- Advanced ORM - SDORM (sql/monogo)
- Raw database access (postgresql/mongodb/scylladb)
- PostgreSQL wire database access
- Cache API (memcached/redis)
- Improved Thread/ThreadPool API(s)
- Marker based configuration (java style annotations)
- Reflection support
- Serialization support
- Date/Time Ultility functions
- Dependency Injection
- Serverside dynamic C++ Pages and template engine (HTML/C++ pages)
- Sample app for Webrtc Signalling (websocket + api) (horizontally scalable peerjs compatible signalling server)
- Embedded HTTP2.0 Server support (experimental)
Examples (as per feedback from HN)
- REST API example - https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/blob/master/web/te-benchmark/include/TeBkRestController.h
- Template example - https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/blob/master/web/markers/tpe/mark.tpe & https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/blob/master/web/default/src/DefTemp.cpp
- Websocket example - https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/blob/master/web/default/src/DefaultWebSocketHandler.cpp
- Webfilter example - https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/blob/master/web/default/src/DefaultIOFilter.cpp
- Webcontroller example - https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/blob/master/web/default/src/DefaultController.cpp
- Dynamic C++ page example - https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/blob/master/web/default/dcp/test.dcp
- Action based view example - https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/blob/master/web/default/fviews/test.html & https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/blob/master/web/default/src/TestFormController.cpp
- XML driven configuration example - https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/blob/master/web/default/config/application.xml
- Annotation (#pragma) driven example - https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/tree/master/web/markers/include
- ORM example - https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/blob/master/web/default/config/sdorm-mysql.xml
- Caching example - https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/blob/master/web/default/config/cache.xml
- Script execution example - https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/tree/master/web/default/scripts
- Programming language integration examples - https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/tree/master/lang-server-backends
- OS Build scripts - https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/tree/master/docker/os-based
- Cross compiling (android, mingw54, dockcross) - https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/tree/master/docker
- I/O Multiplexing - https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/blob/master/src/modules/server-util/SelEpolKqEvPrt.h
- ThreadPool - https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/tree/master/src/modules/threads
- Backend Server integration - https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/tree/master/src/server
- Server modules (apache/nginx/openlitespeed*) - https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/tree/master/modules
- Cron Jobs module - https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/tree/master/src/modules/jobs
- SOLR-Zookeeper/Elasticsearch (Search module) - https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/tree/master/src/modules/search
- Toy/Useless interpreter - https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/tree/master/src/modules/interpreter
- Solaris/BSD vagrant builds - https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/tree/master/vagrant
- A Dumb code autogenerator - https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/blob/master/ffead_gen.sh
- All github workflows for build validations - https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/ffead-cpp/tree/master/.github/workflows
- Install cmake >= 3.8.2 and prerequisites
- mkdir build && cd build
- cmake -DSRV_EMB=on -DMOD_SDORM_MONGO=on ..
- make install -j4 (Build ffead-cpp along-with the sample applications in web + generate ffead-cpp binary)
- Sip some coffee
- cd ../ffead-cpp-7.0-bin/ (Navigate to the ffead-cpp binary folder)
- chmod +x *.sh
- ./server.sh (Startup ffead-cpp !!)
- Install cmake >= 3.8.2, ninja and prerequisites
- mkdir build && cd build
- cmake -GNinja -DSRV_EMB=on -DMOD_SDORM_MONGO=on ..
- ninja install (Build ffead-cpp along-with the sample applications in web + generate ffead-cpp binary)
- Sip some coffee
- cd ../ffead-cpp-7.0-bin/ (Navigate to the ffead-cpp binary folder)
- chmod +x *.sh
- ./server.sh (Startup ffead-cpp !!)
- Install xmake >= 2.5 and prerequisites
- xmake f --cxflags="-I/usr/local/include -w" --MOD_SDORM_MONGO=true -v -D -c
- xmake && xmake install (Build ffead-cpp along-with the sample applications in web + generate ffead-cpp binary)
- Sip some coffee
- cd ffead-cpp-7.0-bin/ (Navigate to the ffead-cpp binary folder)
- chmod +x *.sh
- ./server.sh (Startup ffead-cpp !!)
- Install meson and prerequisites
- meson setup build_meson && cd build_meson
- ninja install (Build ffead-cpp along-with the sample applications in web + generate ffead-cpp binary)
- Sip some coffee
- cd ../ffead-cpp-7.0-bin/ (Navigate to the ffead-cpp binary folder)
- chmod +x *.sh
- ./server.sh (Startup ffead-cpp !!)
- Install scons
pip3 install scons --break-system-packagesand prerequisites - scons -Q (Build ffead-cpp along-with the sample applications in web + generate ffead-cpp binary)
- Sip some coffee
- cd ../ffead-cpp-7.0-bin/ (Navigate to the ffead-cpp binary folder)
- chmod +x *.sh
- ./server.sh (Startup ffead-cpp !!)
- Install shellb with
wget -q https://github.com/sumeetchhetri/shellb/releases/download/2.0.0/shellb -P . && chmod +x ./shellband prerequisites, Always check for the latest version or use the one available already in the package - chmod +x ./shellb && ./shellb ffead-cpp-shellb (Build ffead-cpp along-with the sample applications in web + generate ffead-cpp binary)
- Sip some coffee
- cd shellb_out/ffead-cpp-7.0-bin/ (Navigate to the ffead-cpp binary folder)
- chmod +x *.sh
- ./server.sh (Startup ffead-cpp !!)
- Install bazel
- chmod +x ./shellb && ./shellb ffead-cpp-bazel (Build ffead-cpp along-with the sample applications in web + generate ffead-cpp binary)
- The above command will auto-generate BUILD/WORKSPACE/OTHER bazel files for building with bazel
- Sip some coffee
- cd shellb_out/ffead-cpp-7.0-bin/ (Navigate to the ffead-cpp binary folder)
- chmod +x *.sh
- ./server.sh (Startup ffead-cpp !!)
- Install buck2
- chmod +x ./shellb && ./shellb ffead-cpp-buck2 (Build ffead-cpp along-with the sample applications in web + generate ffead-cpp binary)
- The above command will auto-generate .buckconfig/prelude/BUCK buck files for building with buck2
- Sip some coffee
- cd shellb_out/ffead-cpp-7.0-bin/ (Navigate to the ffead-cpp binary folder)
- chmod +x *.sh
- ./server.sh (Startup ffead-cpp !!)
- Install autoconf, automake and libtool prerequisites
- ./autogen.sh
- ./configure --enable-srv_emb=yes --enable-mod_sdormmongo=yes
- make install -j4 (Build ffead-cpp along-with the sample applications in web + generate ffead-cpp binary)
- Sip some coffee
- cd ffead-cpp-7.0-bin/ (Navigate to the ffead-cpp binary folder)
- chmod +x *.sh
- ./server.sh (Startup ffead-cpp !!)
For further details checkout the wiki page