cowboy VS cowlib

Compare cowboy vs cowlib and see what are their differences.

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cowboy cowlib
10 1
7,162 274
0.5% 1.8%
8.3 4.4
10 days ago about 1 month ago
Erlang Erlang
ISC License ISC License
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cowboy

Posts with mentions or reviews of cowboy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-01-03.

cowlib

Posts with mentions or reviews of cowlib. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-10.
  • Oh Erlang... where have you been all my life?
    4 projects | /r/erlang | 10 Dec 2021
    RE: HTTP/Web Sockets/TCP/UDP/etc. - check out NineNines libraries: Ranch (TCP Socket Acceptor), Cowboy (HTTP Server), Gun (HTTP client), and CowLib (General HTTP/SPDY library) are pretty good from what I hear.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing cowboy and cowlib you can also consider the following projects:

bandit - Bandit is a pure Elixir HTTP server for Plug & WebSock applications

hackney - simple HTTP client in Erlang

elli - Simple, robust and performant Erlang web server

ranch - Socket acceptor pool for TCP protocols.

gun - HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2, Websocket client (and more) for Erlang/OTP.

plug_cowboy - Plug adapter for the Cowboy web server

ast_ninja - The Elixir AST explorer

heroku-buildpack-nodejs - Heroku's buildpack for Node.js applications.

CouchDB - Seamless multi-master syncing database with an intuitive HTTP/JSON API, designed for reliability

mochiweb - MochiWeb is an Erlang library for building lightweight HTTP servers.