atbswp VS Oat++

This book is definitely a good starting point, and if you want a glimpse of what you can achieve with an automation library (pyautogui in the case of the book), do check out atbswp

Using the library of the author pyautogui, I developed a macro recorder atbswp (Yes like the book) which makes it very easy to automate boring tasks, do check it out.

Seems I am late to the party. Anyway, if you like automation, check out atbswp

Shameless plug, you can do the same with this[0] albeit not in the CLI.

0: https://github.com/rmpr/atbswp

Source: I use both in a project of mine atbswp

I just released a new version of atbswp I intend to start working on the v0.3 (or 0.2.1 not sure yet)

Just to add options on top of QT5, there's also wxPython. It's pretty good, and fwiw, I use it for this project not the most convoluted GUI out there but it works. Iirc there's also Pysimplegui but I never used it.

Not necessarily, you can use a CI pipeline to verify that your project can be build with many Python versions. This is the workflow I use here[0]. It makes catching and fixing breaking changes easier. Plus, I'm confident the core team is not likely to introduce a painful breaking change (think Python 2 -> 3) soon[1]

0: https://github.com/rmpr/atbswp

1: https://mobile.twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/130608247244308...

I looked at oatpp and drogon, which are both great, but feel too high-level for my purposes. I tried drogon and got something working, but it feels like too much for my requirements, as in particular I'd like to slot in my choice of Json and message-body handling. C.f. the simple approach in Crow, which I easily understand and build on.

With the right libraries, C++ could be a good fit for applications that want to expose a fast web API to things that need lots of compute (simulators, for instance) or I/O (interactive editing of large datasets). Projects like Oat++ and Crow give me hope that we might see such an ecosystem develop.

Lots of other options have been mentioned, but I'll throw Oat++ into the mix. I used it for this purpose and it was reasonably painless.

https://github.com/oatpp/oatpp +WASM ;)

cd "some/temp/path/for/repositories" git clone https://github.com/oatpp/oatpp.git cd oatpp mkdir build && cd build cmake .. (sudo) make install

Maybe use something like https://oatpp.io to create a REST API: C++ in the backend with this library to create a REST server, and the JavaScript/TypeScript frontend to ask for the information.

I've used OATPP ( https://github.com/oatpp/oatpp ) which worked nicely for setting up simple rest interfaces. Supports things like swagger & websockets out of the box. It's also on Conan which is nice if you use cmake. I can't speak to it's performance but it has about a 1mb binary size footprint.

As for your web problem, I have only used https://oatpp.io/ in the past but I'm sure there are more frameworks like that on the internet.