CppCMS vs drogon

CppCMS

CppCMS Framework (by artyom-beilis)

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)

Web Application Framework Linux http-framework HTTP Server HTTP drogon non-blocking-io asynchronous-programming

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CppCMS		drogon
	Project
-	Mentions	6
429	Stars	5,863
-	Growth	-
1.7	Activity	9.0
10 months ago	Latest Commit	over 2 years ago
C++	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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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.

CppCMS

Posts with mentions or reviews of CppCMS. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

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Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

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.

Easiest way to get values and run C++ code through a webpage
1 project | /r/AskProgramming | 10 Jun 2021

You also have https://github.com/an-tao/drogon
cpprestsdk in maintenance mode
17 projects | /r/cpp | 8 Jun 2021

If you need an embedded C++ HTTP server then there are plenty of libraries/frameworks (in random order): Crow, RESTinio, Boost.Beast, cpp-httplib, http_backend, Pistache, RestBed, served, proxygen, Simple-Web-Server, drogon, oat++.
How to use C++ as backend
8 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 20 Apr 2021

You can use Drogon, which is currently the fastets framework in the TechEmpower benchmark.
C++ web frameworks: how to compare?
2 projects | /r/cpp | 24 Mar 2021

FYI: I posted to the top contenders GitHub issues - https://github.com/an-tao/drogon/issues/760 - https://github.com/matt-42/lithium/issues/63 - https://github.com/rbock/sqlpp11/issues/361 - https://github.com/oatpp/oatpp/issues/401
The state of server-side frameworks for Dart
6 projects | /r/dartlang | 12 Mar 2021

For example, Drogon is said to be the fastest http server: https://github.com/an-tao/drogon.
Suggested libraries for building a REST service in C++?
2 projects | /r/cpp | 25 Jan 2021

I like this one Drogon.

What are some alternatives?

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

Wt - Wt, C++ Web Toolkit

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

TreeFrog Framework - TreeFrog Framework : High-speed C++ MVC Framework for Web Application

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

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.

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

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

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

Kore - An easy to use, scalable and secure web application framework for writing web APIs in C or Python. || This is a read-only mirror, please see https://kore.io/mail and https://kore.io/source for information on how to contribute via the mailing lists.