GCDWebServer
The #1 HTTP server for iOS, macOS & tvOS (also includes web based uploader & WebDAV server) (by swisspol)
Perfect
Server-side Swift. The Perfect core toolset and framework for Swift Developers. (For mobile back-end development, website and API development, and more…) (by PerfectlySoft)
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| GCDWebServer | Perfect | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | |
| 6,300 | 13,835 | |
| - | -0.0% | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| over 1 year ago | 3 months ago | |
| Objective-C | Swift | |
| NOASSERTION | Apache License 2.0 |
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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.
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?
Perfect
Posts with mentions or reviews of Perfect.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-03.
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Getting Started with Swift on Server
There are some interesting http frameworks (think Express.js, Fastify, etc.) to simplify working with SwiftNIO such as Vapor, Hummingbird and Perfect. There's even a full CMS (Feather).
What are some alternatives?
When comparing GCDWebServer and Perfect you can also consider the following projects:
CocoaHTTPServer - A small, lightweight, embeddable HTTP server for Mac OS X or iOS applications
Vapor - 💧 A server-side Swift HTTP web framework.
swifter - Tiny http server engine written in Swift programming language.
Kitura - A Swift web framework and HTTP server.
Alamofire - Elegant HTTP Networking in Swift
swift-http - HTTP Implementation for Swift on Linux and Mac OS X
Express - Swift Express is a simple, yet unopinionated web application server written in Swift
Zewo - Lightweight library for web server applications in Swift on macOS and Linux powered by coroutines.
swift-nio - Event-driven network application framework for high performance protocol servers & clients, non-blocking.