Embassy
Super lightweight async HTTP server library in pure Swift runs in iOS / MacOS / Linux (by envoy)
Kitura
A Swift web framework and HTTP server. (by Kitura)
Embassy | Kitura | |
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1 | 3 | |
602 | 7,629 | |
0.2% | 0.0% | |
0.0 | 0.0 | |
10 months ago | about 2 years ago | |
Swift | Swift | |
MIT 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.
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.
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.
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Is it possible/straightforward to have a webserver baked in to an iOS app?
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.
Kitura
Posts with mentions or reviews of Kitura.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-15.
- Swift outside the Apple ecosystem
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Apple overtakes Android to pass 50% share of smartphones used in US; dominates global premium sales
There are server frameworks like Vapor or Kitura.
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Debate Going On Inside of a Friend's Startup: Stack to use to get a Full-Featured Web App off of the ground quickly.
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 Embassy and Kitura you can also consider the following projects:
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…)
Express - Swift Express is a simple, yet unopinionated web application server written in Swift
GCDWebServer - The #1 HTTP server for iOS, macOS & tvOS (also includes web based uploader & WebDAV server)
Noze.io - Evented I/O streams for Swift
Swifton - A Ruby on Rails inspired Web Framework for Swift that runs on Linux and OS X
CocoaHTTPServer - A small, lightweight, embeddable HTTP server for Mac OS X or iOS applications