Express vs Embassy

Express

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

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Embassy

Super lightweight async HTTP server library in pure Swift runs in iOS / MacOS / Linux (by envoy)

Network Webserver Swift Asynchronous iOS Lightweight Linux

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Express		Embassy
	Project
-	Mentions	1
847	Stars	592
-0.2%	Growth	0.5%
0.0	Activity	0.0
over 5 years ago	Latest Commit	2 months ago
Swift	Language	Swift
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	MIT License

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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.

Embassy

Posts with mentions or reviews of Embassy. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-05-05.

Is it possible/straightforward to have a webserver baked in to an iOS app?
5 projects | /r/iOSProgramming | 5 May 2023

Right now I'm using https://github.com/envoy/Embassy. There's also https://github.com/envoy/Ambassador if you want an "HTTP Framework". These are more lightweight, but they might not be feature complete.

What are some alternatives?

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

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

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

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

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

Kitura - A Swift web framework and HTTP server.

Noze.io - Evented I/O streams for Swift

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

Dynamo - High Performance (nearly)100% Swift Web server supporting dynamic content.