yahat-cpp VS RapidJSON

Yahat-cpp: Simple HTTP/API server library for use in C++ micro-services. This was just some code that kept evolving inside various projects, so I distilled it to a separate project to make it simpler to maintain. For an example of a real server using it, you cal look at nsblast, a new DNS server I'm implementing.

I hope this question is not too off-topic here. I'm a bit lost. I'm working on a C++ project (a DNS server). It exposes a REST API via an embedded, very simple HTTP server. I have added swagger to document the API, and to test it from a browser. Now, I want to provide a simple web-UI to the application. I don't want this to become a major task, and ideally I want either a UI that lives as some simple js/css/http files in the browser, (so it can be served as a static website on the server-side like swagger) - or some simple to use back-end library in C++ that can drive the web-UI. In short, I hope to find a way to do this where I can have a POC ready in <= a week, and where I don't have to spend lot's of time learning some js framework.

Here's what I did: - I bought a theme that I liked, and used mstch as template engine (matched the theme's template format) - Imported rapidjson for parsing JSON, and used mstch for generating JSON (the JSON I generate is simple enough that I can do this) - Wrote an HTTP handler class for each page that handles the GET and POST requests, generating HTML or JSON depending on the request

And documentation in most cases is more user-friendly if you will use something like MkDocs(based on Markdown), example http://rapidjson.org/

Use RapidJSON https://rapidjson.org/

It seems not super widely used compared to other famous libraries like RapidJSON, nlohmann-json, or simdjson. But it seems the author is very active in developing this project which can mitigate this "lack of community" issue.

have a look at rapidjson for a a nice simple json framework https://rapidjson.org/ I use it and it's quite fast and as good as anything I used in python.

So I just cloned https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson to see what is the current status. At compile time they check if the C++ compiler supports the "noexcept" keyword, and if so they define RAPIDJSON_NOEXCEPT to be "noexcept". Throughout the implementation, RAPIDJSON_NOEXCEPT is added to quite a few function declarations (about a hundred of them).

RapidJSON is also excellent, like fantastic when performance matters. Not sure there's a much faster JSON implementation anywhere, and I've written my own SAX-style parser as a fun, hobby project for C++.