Express vs Kitura

Express

Swift Express is a simple, yet unopinionated web application server written in Swift (by crossroadlabs)

#Network #Webserver

Source Code

Kitura

A Swift web framework and HTTP server. (by Kitura)

#Network #Webserver #Kitura #Swift #Web #Server #server-side-swift #Routing #SSL

Source Code

kitura.dev

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Express		Kitura
	Project
0	Mentions	1
855	Stars	7,537
0.1%	Growth	0.1%
0.0	Activity	1.8
over 3 years ago	Latest Commit	4 months ago
Swift	Language	Swift
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	Apache License 2.0

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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.
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Express

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

We haven't tracked posts mentioning Express yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

Kitura

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

Debate Going On Inside of a Friend's Startup: Stack to use to get a Full-Featured Web App off of the ground quickly.
1 project | reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions | 28 Feb 2021

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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Express and Kitura you can also consider the following projects:

Vapor - 💧 A server-side Swift HTTP web framework.

Swifton - A Ruby on Rails inspired Web Framework for Swift that runs on Linux and OS X

Perfect - Server-side Swift. The Perfect core toolset and framework for Swift Developers. (For mobile back-end development, website and API development, and more…)

swifter - Tiny http server engine written in Swift programming language.

GCDWebServer - The #1 HTTP server for iOS, macOS & tvOS (also includes web based uploader & WebDAV server)

CocoaHTTPServer - A small, lightweight, embeddable HTTP server for Mac OS X or iOS applications

Alamofire - Elegant HTTP Networking in Swift

Taylor - A lightweight library for writing HTTP web servers with Swift

Zewo - Lightweight library for web server applications in Swift on macOS and Linux powered by coroutines.