Crow VS RESTinio

I did something similar in the past and used https://github.com/ipkn/crow as web server, in case you want to not implement the web part yourself. Otherwise amazing job!

Open socket, serve a html page, implement GET/PUT or find framework that do https://github.com/ipkn/crow

A web server e.g. https://github.com/ipkn/crow

It seems nice, but the framework seems to be dead. There are still open pull requests and the contribution page speaks for itself: https://github.com/ipkn/crow/graphs/contributors

All right Op feel free to check this micro framework out if your company is going to build a rest api in C++ https://github.com/ipkn/crow .

I haven't used any of the following libraries/frameworks but maybe some of them will fit for your needs: - Crow micro web framework

https://github.com/fffaraz/awesome-cpp#web-application-framework Crow is nice for what i need most often, https://github.com/ipkn/crow

In my past job, we used https://github.com/Stiffstream/restinio and absolutely loved it. It's not as active but it honestly didn't need much.

Here's a C++ REST framework for you to use too: https://github.com/Stiffstream/restinio

I had a good experience using restinio for a small ASIO HTTP server recently.

It uses restinio https://github.com/Stiffstream/restinio with great success ;)

For networking, pick a networking library. Restinio is a fair choice for HTTP. But, again, feel free to pick others.

You may find this worthwhile: https://github.com/Stiffstream/restinio/issues/101 FWIW, I used Restbed successfully for 3.5 years before switching personal projects to Restino. I've left the job that used Restbed, but I think they are still using it.

Contrary to the direction most people go, I've been writing REST APIs as C++ servers using two different fairly full featured C++ REST frameworks: first using https://github.com/Corvusoft/restbed and more lately using https://github.com/Stiffstream/restinio. These can be peers with any other server, while living on embedded and/or high compute devices for video encode/decode/analysis, deployed ML models, encryption for and remote process communications, model data collection and similar expensive or in-field processing. In both high compute and in-field-no-internet situations creating REST APIs in C++ enables speed and system controls not present in the majority of the mainstream REST frameworks. It's a big world, and here comes ubiquitous high compute...

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++.