Top 5 C Web Server Projects

Mongoose

32 10,554 9.6 C

Embedded Web Server (by cesanta)

Project mention: Coroutines in C | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-25

I've found myself at this webpage multiple times while trying to minimize the complexity of APIs in my C projects.
My conclusion for now is that C coroutines are something to be left to the implementer. For example: Mongoose (https://github.com/cesanta/mongoose) uses event callbacks to deal with asynchronousness. It is much more pleasant to wrap a library like this in whatever thread/task primitives your system has rather than try to integrate the mythical cross-platform c couroutine.

NGINX Unit

16 5,077 9.5 C

NGINX Unit is a lightweight and versatile open-source web app server that has three core capabilities. It is a HTTP reverse proxy, a web server for static media assets, and an application server that can natively execute application code in seven different languages.

Project mention: Litestar – powerful, flexible, and highly performant Python ASGI framework | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-02-26

InfluxDB

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Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
facebooc

1 557 0.0 C

Yet another Facebook clone written in C
FastWSGI

9 408 4.4 C

An ultra fast WSGI server for Python 3
BAS

0 53 6.2 C

Embedded Web Server Library with Integrated Scripting Engine
WorkOS

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The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).