GCDWebServer vs Frank

GCDWebServer

The #1 HTTP server for iOS, macOS & tvOS (also includes web based uploader & WebDAV server) (by swisspol)

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Frank

Frank is a DSL for quickly writing web applications in Swift (by kylef-archive)

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GCDWebServer		Frank
	Project
3	Mentions	-
6,300	Stars	373
-	Growth	0.0%
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 1 year ago	Latest Commit	over 5 years ago
Objective-C	Language	Swift
NOASSERTION	License	BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License

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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?
5 projects | /r/iOSProgramming | 5 May 2023
Most effective approach for building a client/server application (MacOS)
2 projects | /r/swift | 2 May 2023

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?
4 projects | /r/iOSProgramming | 20 Apr 2022

Frank

Posts with mentions or reviews of Frank. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing GCDWebServer and Frank you can also consider the following projects:

CocoaHTTPServer - A small, lightweight, embeddable HTTP server for Mac OS X or iOS applications

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

swift-http - HTTP Implementation for Swift on Linux and Mac OS X

Edge - A Swift Multiplatform Single-threaded Non-blocking Web and Networking Framework

Kitura - A Swift web framework and HTTP server.

Noze.io - Evented I/O streams for Swift