WebSocket++ vs Muduo

WebSocket++

C++ websocket client/server library (by zaphoyd)

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Source Code

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Muduo

Event-driven network library for multi-threaded Linux server in C++11 (by chenshuo)

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WebSocket++		Muduo
	Project
5	Mentions	2
6,719	Stars	14,199
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	0.0
20 days ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
C++	Language	C++
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 or later

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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.

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.

Request for a websocket library
2 projects | /r/cpp | 25 Mar 2022

1) websocketpp : https://github.com/zaphoyd/websocketpp
How and where I can learn about Web sockets, APIs, Wrappers to connect with my C++ code?
4 projects | /r/cpp_questions | 19 Apr 2021

Learning how to use this library is probably your best bet: https://github.com/zaphoyd/websocketpp

Muduo

Posts with mentions or reviews of Muduo. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-06.

Seeking Improve Advice on my C++ Network Library
7 projects | /r/cpp | 6 Feb 2023

Here is the link: Turtle. During development phase, I referenced a lot of other sources. The single most contributing one would be the Muduo library implemented by a senior at Google.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing WebSocket++ and Muduo you can also consider the following projects:

Boost.Beast - HTTP and WebSocket built on Boost.Asio in C++11

libwebsockets - canonical libwebsockets.org networking library

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

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.

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

cpr - C++ Requests: Curl for People, a spiritual port of Python Requests.

evpp - A modern C++ network library for developing high performance network services in TCP/UDP/HTTP protocols.

Simple-WebSocket-Server

nghttp2 - nghttp2 - HTTP/2 C Library and tools