webdev-town
A curated list of web development tools, articles, libraries, and resources that gets updated every day. (by Vincenius)
Caddy
Fast and extensible multi-platform HTTP/1-2-3 web server with automatic HTTPS (by caddyserver)
Nutrient - The #1 PDF SDK Library
Bad PDFs = bad UX. Slow load times, broken annotations, clunky UX frustrates users. Nutrient’s PDF SDKs gives seamless document experiences, fast rendering, annotations, real-time collaboration, 100+ features. Used by 10K+ devs, serving ~half a billion users worldwide. Explore the SDK for free.
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| webdev-town | Caddy | |
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| 3 | 432 | |
| 11 | 62,231 | |
| - | 1.9% | |
| 9.6 | 9.4 | |
| 8 months ago | 2 days ago | |
| JavaScript | Go | |
| - | Apache License 2.0 |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
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.
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.
webdev-town
Posts with mentions or reviews of webdev-town.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-10.
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💻 Web Development Resources #176
Here's the summary of this week's WebDev Town resources.
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A Guide To Self-Hosting Web Apps On Ubuntu Servers
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Show HN: My collection of 1700 hand-picked web development and design resources
Hi everyone :) Since 2019 I've been collecting various links from the web development and design world.
Recently I've put them all on the website of [WebDev Town](https://webdev.town), which I update every day.
I hope you'll find something useful over there :)
PS. It's [open-source](https://github.com/Vincenius/webdev-town), and you can also [submit resources](https://webdev.town/submit) if you have a cool side project you want to show others
Caddy
Posts with mentions or reviews of Caddy.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-03-10.
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An Introduction to Cosmo Router — Blazingly Fast Open-Source Federation V1/V2 Gateway
This approach offers a level of customizability similar to what xcaddy does for the Caddy server, eliminating the complexities associated with writing Rhai scripts to customize a precompiled binary, as is the case with the Apollo Router.
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The Easiest Way To Use Https In Localhost
Caddy is a server written in Go programming language, known to be easy peasy to configure (Unlike configuring Nginx), and it also includes https by default.
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Self-hosting with Caddy Server And Souin (Caching Module)
Caddy is the ultimate web server anyone should be using. This is true for production as well as for local development. It is very fast, and by default obtains and renews SSL certificates automatically. This is useful for when you want to test certain website feature that is only allowed when they're accessed with HTTPS. You get free TLS for all your subdomains, and it does that in a scalable way.
- Nginx: Try_files Is Evil Too
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The Plan 9 Foundation
Did you happen to look at caddy? It at least used to have some degree of support for plan9: https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/1093
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Setting up a trusted, self-signed SSL/TLS certificate authority in Linux
https://github.com/caddyserver/caddy/issues/5759 :
> When generating a CA cert via caddy and putting that in the trust store, those private keys can also forge certificates for any other domain.
RFC5280 (2008) "Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile" > Section 4.2.1.10
- Caddy – The Ultimate Server with Automatic HTTPS
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Cloudflare is almost perfect
Sidecar containers: Google Cloud Run has a cool feature where you can run multiple containers next to each other. So for example, if you want to run Caddy or Traefik as a reverse proxy for your ingress container and then have both your web frontend container & backend api container co-located in the same service, you can do that & have everything be super low latency.
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Build a Symfony 7 boilerplate using FrankenPHP, Docker, PostgreSQL and php 8.4
FrankenPHP use Caddy as proxy server, so we'll need a Caddyfile to configure it and also provide basic php configurations. Here again we'll stick to the FrankenPHP documention. You can find it in the docker/frankenphp folder.
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A $5 to $10 VPS can do a lot more than you think
Caddy to allow our logs to be sent over HTTPS
What are some alternatives?
When comparing webdev-town and Caddy you can also consider the following projects:
PM2 - Node.js Production Process Manager with a built-in Load Balancer.
HAProxy - HAProxy documentation
nvm - Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions
oauth2-proxy - A reverse proxy that provides authentication with Google, Azure, OpenID Connect and many more identity providers.
traefik - The Cloud Native Application Proxy
Squid - Squid Web Proxy Cache
Nutrient - The #1 PDF SDK Library
Bad PDFs = bad UX. Slow load times, broken annotations, clunky UX frustrates users. Nutrient’s PDF SDKs gives seamless document experiences, fast rendering, annotations, real-time collaboration, 100+ features. Used by 10K+ devs, serving ~half a billion users worldwide. Explore the SDK for free.
nutrient.io
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