GCDWebServer
The #1 HTTP server for iOS, macOS & tvOS (also includes web based uploader & WebDAV server) (by swisspol)
Embassy
Super lightweight async HTTP server library in pure Swift runs in iOS / MacOS / Linux (by envoy)
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| GCDWebServer | Embassy | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 1 | |
| 6,300 | 593 | |
| - | 0.5% | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| over 1 year ago | 2 months ago | |
| Objective-C | Swift | |
| NOASSERTION | 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.
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?
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 GCDWebServer and Embassy you can also consider the following projects:
CocoaHTTPServer - A small, lightweight, embeddable HTTP server for Mac OS X or iOS applications
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.
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
Noze.io - Evented I/O streams for Swift
Perfect - Server-side Swift. The Perfect core toolset and framework for Swift Developers. (For mobile back-end development, website and API development, and more…)