Frank
Frank is a DSL for quickly writing web applications in Swift (by kylef-archive)
Embassy
Super lightweight async HTTP server library in pure Swift runs in iOS / MacOS / Linux (by envoy)
Frank | Embassy | |
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- | 1 | |
373 | 593 | |
0.0% | 0.7% | |
0.0 | 0.0 | |
over 5 years ago | 2 months ago | |
Swift | Swift | |
BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | MIT License |
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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.
Frank
Posts with mentions or reviews of Frank.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects.
We haven't tracked posts mentioning Frank yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
Embassy
Posts with mentions or reviews of Embassy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-05.
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Is it possible/straightforward to have a webserver baked in to an iOS app?
Right now I'm using https://github.com/envoy/Embassy. There's also https://github.com/envoy/Ambassador if you want an "HTTP Framework". These are more lightweight, but they might not be feature complete.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Frank and Embassy you can also consider the following projects:
Perfect - Server-side Swift. The Perfect core toolset and framework for Swift Developers. (For mobile back-end development, website and API development, and more…)
swifter - Tiny http server engine written in Swift programming language.
Vapor - 💧 A server-side Swift HTTP web framework.
Curassow - Swift HTTP server using the pre-fork worker model
Kitura - A Swift web framework and HTTP server.
Edge - A Swift Multiplatform Single-threaded Non-blocking Web and Networking Framework
Express - Swift Express is a simple, yet unopinionated web application server written in Swift
Noze.io - Evented I/O streams for Swift