Kitura
A Swift web framework and HTTP server. (by Kitura)
GCDWebServer
The #1 HTTP server for iOS, macOS & tvOS (also includes web based uploader & WebDAV server) (by swisspol)
| Kitura | GCDWebServer | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | |
| 7,630 | 6,300 | |
| 0.0% | - | |
| 0.0 | 0.0 | |
| over 2 years ago | over 2 years ago | |
| Swift | Objective-C | |
| Apache License 2.0 | 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.
Kitura
Posts with mentions or reviews of Kitura.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-15.
- Swift outside the Apple ecosystem
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Apple overtakes Android to pass 50% share of smartphones used in US; dominates global premium sales
There are server frameworks like Vapor or Kitura.
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Debate Going On Inside of a Friend's Startup: Stack to use to get a Full-Featured Web App off of the ground quickly.
Kitura is still alive, btw. Although Vapor may be a better choice. I don't have the swift experience to make a judgement between the two.
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 Kitura and GCDWebServer you can also consider the following projects:
Vapor - 💧 A server-side Swift HTTP web framework.
swifter - Tiny http server engine written in Swift programming language.
Perfect - Server-side Swift. The Perfect core toolset and framework for Swift Developers. (For mobile back-end development, website and API development, and more…)
CocoaHTTPServer - A small, lightweight, embeddable HTTP server for Mac OS X or iOS applications
Express - Swift Express is a simple, yet unopinionated web application server written in Swift
swift-http - HTTP Implementation for Swift on Linux and Mac OS X