WebSocket++ VS Boost.Beast

Compare WebSocket++ vs Boost.Beast and see what are their differences.

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WebSocket++ Boost.Beast
5 11
6,695 4,129
- 1.4%
0.0 8.3
1 day ago 10 days ago
C++ C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later Boost Software License 1.0
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WebSocket++

Posts with mentions or reviews of WebSocket++. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-25.

Boost.Beast

Posts with mentions or reviews of Boost.Beast. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-19.
  • LLVM 16.0.0 Release
    2 projects | /r/cpp | 19 Mar 2023
    There is at least one notable exception to this rule: https://github.com/boostorg/beast/issues/1445
  • boost.beast
    2 projects | /r/cpp | 17 Apr 2022
    We used beast to implement a market data server(and I think we also did a small client, to test it) which was sending protobuf messages, and it worked great(we also used boost adio, which made it very scalable). When we tested the server, we were generating around 100k messages per second(when there was the biggest activity on the market), I think I've posted here some stats: https://github.com/boostorg/beast/issues/2313.
  • Suggestions for a minimal and simple http client library?
    2 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 2 Nov 2021
    Boost Beast?
  • tuplet: A Lightweight Tuple Library for Modern C++
    6 projects | /r/cpp | 28 Sep 2021
  • What are some commonly used or underrated features provided by the Boost library that haven't been yet adopted by the STL?
    2 projects | /r/cpp | 20 Sep 2021
  • CMake Part 1 – The Dark Arts
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Jul 2021
    cmake -h. -Bbuild && cmake --build build

    to work about 90% of the time. Far more luck than I've had with autotools.

    > Its code is horrifying too, for example:

    1) I'm sure I could find some horriffic code in meson too if I went digging. 2) The alternative to this is you having to write something equivalent in your own code, meaning that in my code I don't need to do stuff like [0] in my code to detect features; my build system handles it for me. 3) CMake supports more platforms and targets than I've ever seen in my life, and likely supports more compilers than are necessary. that's a blessing and a curse, but it means that if I write simple program to run on some crufty microcontroller with a bastardised gcc toolchain from the 90s, it's fairly likely that cmake supports it out of the box. Code like that is the price to pay for that level of support.

    [0] https://github.com/boostorg/beast/blob/b7344b0d501f23f763a76...

  • cpprestsdk in maintenance mode
    17 projects | /r/cpp | 8 Jun 2021
    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++.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing WebSocket++ and Boost.Beast you can also consider the following projects:

C++ REST SDK - The C++ REST SDK is a Microsoft project for cloud-based client-server communication in native code using a modern asynchronous C++ API design. This project aims to help C++ developers connect to and interact with services.

libcurl - A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMB, SMBS, SMTP, SMTPS, TELNET, TFTP, WS and WSS. libcurl offers a myriad of powerful features

POCO - The POCO C++ Libraries are powerful cross-platform C++ libraries for building network- and internet-based applications that run on desktop, server, mobile, IoT, and embedded systems.

libwebsockets - canonical libwebsockets.org networking library

µWebSockets - Simple, secure & standards compliant web server for the most demanding of applications

cpp-netlib - The C++ Network Library Project -- cross-platform, standards compliant networking library.

nghttp2 - nghttp2 - HTTP/2 C Library and tools

RESTinio - Cross-platform, efficient, customizable, and robust asynchronous HTTP(S)/WebSocket server C++ library with the right balance between performance and ease of use

drogon - Drogon: A C++14/17/20 based HTTP web application framework running on Linux/macOS/Unix/Windows