CocoaHTTPServer
A small, lightweight, embeddable HTTP server for Mac OS X or iOS applications (by robbiehanson)
GCDWebServer
The #1 HTTP server for iOS, macOS & tvOS (also includes web based uploader & WebDAV server) (by swisspol)
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| CocoaHTTPServer | GCDWebServer | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 | |
| 5,560 | 6,300 | |
| - | - | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| about 1 month ago | about 1 year ago | |
| Objective-C | Objective-C | |
| BSD 3-clause "New" or "Revised" License | NOASSERTION |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
CocoaHTTPServer
Posts with mentions or reviews of CocoaHTTPServer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-27.
GCDWebServer
Posts with mentions or reviews of GCDWebServer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-05.
- Is it possible/straightforward to have a webserver baked in to an iOS app?
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Most effective approach for building a client/server application (MacOS)
I use https://github.com/swisspol/GCDWebServer but there are many webservers you can use. You can even use the Apache that is part of the standard MacOS distribution, where you write a standard CGI to make the Mac do things. Python also includes a standard webserver.
- What is the simplest way to have local http server in iOS app?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing CocoaHTTPServer and GCDWebServer you can also consider the following projects:
swift-http - HTTP Implementation for Swift on Linux and Mac OS X
swifter - Tiny http server engine written in Swift programming language.
Vapor - 💧 A server-side Swift HTTP web framework.
Kitura - A Swift web framework and HTTP server.
Perfect - Server-side Swift. The Perfect core toolset and framework for Swift Developers. (For mobile back-end development, website and API development, and more…)
swift-nio - Event-driven network application framework for high performance protocol servers & clients, non-blocking.
Embassy - Super lightweight async HTTP server library in pure Swift runs in iOS / MacOS / Linux