drogon VS libunifex

Compare drogon vs libunifex and see what are their differences.

drogon

Drogon: A C++14/17 based HTTP web application framework running on Linux/macOS/Unix/Windows [Moved to: https://github.com/drogonframework/drogon] (by an-tao)

libunifex

Unified Executors (by facebookexperimental)
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drogon libunifex
6 22
5,863 1,355
- 3.7%
9.0 7.8
almost 3 years ago 8 days ago
C++ C++
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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drogon

Posts with mentions or reviews of drogon. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-06-08.

libunifex

Posts with mentions or reviews of libunifex. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-23.
  • Comparing asio to unifex
    2 projects | /r/cpp | 23 Jun 2023
    I'm curious what led you to this conclusion. If you ran into scalability issues with its static_thread_pool, then that's a known issue. If it's something else, the authors (of which I'm one) would love to know.
  • How does one actually build a C++ project
    3 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 26 May 2023
    Instead of calling add_executable you will call add_library. Here is a (only moderately complicated) production example of a library that can be built standalone (along with tests and example executables), or as a subproject, where it builds only the library
  • How to write networking code now that will be easiest to adapt to the upcoming standard?
    2 projects | /r/cpp | 22 May 2023
    My original thought was to build my DDS implementation on top of libunifex in anticipation for standardization: https://github.com/facebookexperimental/libunifex
  • Executors/libunifex example project
    1 project | /r/Cplusplus | 10 Oct 2022
    I'm trying to understand how to work with the proposed executors in a project, but after watching Eric Niebler's cppcon talks (https://youtu.be/xLboNIf7BTg) and looking at the libunifex examples (https://github.com/facebookexperimental/libunifex/tree/main/examples) I still have a hard time wrapping my head around how to employ the sender/receiver pattern in a larger project.
  • Async/Await pattern in C++
    3 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 19 Jul 2022
    You have coroutines in C++20 but there is also the executives proposal that's making it's way into C++23 that is available as a library under the name unifex that only requires C++14
  • Using Asio for asynchronous gRPC clients and servers
    3 projects | /r/cpp | 6 Jun 2022
    Asio-grpc makes exactly that possible by providing an Asio execution_context compatible interface to the CompletionQueue. It supports all types of RPCs (including generic ones), completion tokens, cancellation, as well as libunifex sender/receiver (if you want to try out what might become std::execution). The latest release (v1.7.0) also introduced a GrpcStream class for writing Rust/Golang select-style code.
  • My thoughts and dreams about a standard user-space I/O scheduler
    4 projects | /r/cpp | 28 Apr 2022
    P2300: they are trying to standardize facebookexperimental/libunifex
  • "C++ makes it harder to shoot yourself, but when you do it blows your whole leg off"
    4 projects | /r/ProgrammerHumor | 18 Feb 2022
    All the network handling for Instagram and all other Meta apps on all platforms is handled by their own C++ library https://github.com/facebookexperimental/libunifex.
  • State of the art for CPOs (customization points) in C++?
    2 projects | /r/cpp | 3 Dec 2021
    This. I'd also like to mention libunifex. It's entirely based on tag_invoke and is a testament as to how much power it actually provides. On the other hand, it also proves how cumbersome it is to define CPOs with tag_invoke. But IMO it's a lot better than anything else anyone has ever created, and users usually don't need to define new CPOs, only library writers do, so there's that.
  • Why do we need networking, executors, linear algebra, etc in the Standard Library?
    2 projects | /r/cpp | 28 Nov 2021
    A work in progress implementation of the library: https://github.com/facebookexperimental/libunifex

What are some alternatives?

When comparing drogon and libunifex you can also consider the following projects:

Oat++ - 🌱Light and powerful C++ web framework for highly scalable and resource-efficient web application. It's zero-dependency and easy-portable.

cppcoro - A library of C++ coroutine abstractions for the coroutines TS

Crow - Crow is very fast and easy to use C++ micro web framework (inspired by Python Flask)

concurrencpp - Modern concurrency for C++. Tasks, executors, timers and C++20 coroutines to rule them all

C++ REST SDK - The C++ REST SDK is a Microsoft project for cloud-based client-server communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design. This project aims to help C++ developers connect to and interact with services.

Taskflow - A General-purpose Parallel and Heterogeneous Task Programming System

lithium - Easy to use C++17 HTTP Server with no compromise on performances. https://matt-42.github.io/lithium

Restbed - Corvusoft's Restbed framework brings asynchronous RESTful functionality to C++14 applications.

µWebSockets - Simple, secure & standards compliant web server for the most demanding of applications

corrade - C++11 multiplatform utility library

Pistache - A high-performance REST toolkit written in C++

Boost.Beast - HTTP and WebSocket built on Boost.Asio in C++11