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Top 23 C++ header-only Projects
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Project mention: Show HN: Logfmtxx – Header only C++23 structured logging library using logfmt | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-03
Why a new lib instead of using or contributing to an existing one as spdlog?
https://github.com/gabime/spdlog
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Project mention: Using Jolt with flecs & Dear ImGui: Game Physics Introspection | dev.to | 2024-04-17
EnTT is a popular alternative to flecs for C++, which has different performance/memory characteristics.
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Closest thing I've heard:
https://github.com/g-truc/glm?tab=License-1-ov-file#readme
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FTXUI
Features: - Functional style. Inspired by [1] and React - Simple and elegant syntax (in my opinion). - Support for UTF8 and fullwidth chars (→ 测试). - No dependencies. - Cross platform. Linux/mac (main target), Windows (experimental thanks to contributors), - WebAssembly. - Keyboard & mouse navigation. Operating systems: - linux emscripten - linux gcc - linux clang - windows msvc - mac clang
libaloo is a C library which uses GTK4 behind the scenes to create an GTK application It’s mainly written in C. It also has a CLI and CLI with TUI written in C++ with FtxUI but to set it up, Python is used.
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catch2 has become fairly bloated. doctest takes all of the best parts of catch2 without all the bloat and the end result is a test framework that is literally over 10x faster than catch2. It's also like 90% compatible with catch2 so porting your tests to it is pretty easy.
Especially if you have a build process that always runs your unit tests, it's nice to have a very fast test/compile/debug loop.
https://github.com/doctest/doctest
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Magic Enum C++
Static reflection for enums (to string, from string, iteration) for modern C++, work with any enum type without any macro or boilerplate code
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Project mention: Implementing Regular Expressions in TypeScript Types (Badly) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-20
Hana Dusikova did this in C++ several years ago, with her CTRE library.
https://github.com/hanickadot/compile-time-regular-expressio...
Of course, it has all the usual tradeoffs of compile-time template programming.
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Alternatives are glog from Google is full-featured, like spdlog, while Plog offers a lightweight alternative. Both are worthy upgrades on using C++ built-in std::clog.
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Nameof C++
Nameof operator for modern C++, simply obtain the name of a variable, type, function, macro, and enum
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uvw
Header-only, event based, tiny and easy to use libuv wrapper in modern C++ - now available as also shared/static library!
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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).
C++ header-only discussion
C++ header-only related posts
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Implementing Regular Expressions in TypeScript Types (Badly)
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libaloo (Aloo)
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Giving C++ std:regex a C makeover
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🚀Announcing conjure_enum - a C++20 enum and typename reflection Library
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Show HN: Conjure_enum – a C++20 enum and typename reflection Library
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Larena: Yet another simple header only arena allocator for C
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Larena: Yet another simple header only arena allocator for C11
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Index
What are some of the best open-source header-only projects in C++? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | json | 44,078 |
| 2 | spdlog | 25,075 |
| 3 | cpp-httplib | 13,429 |
| 4 | entt | 10,449 |
| 5 | GLM | 9,511 |
| 6 | FTXUI | 7,591 |
| 7 | Crow | 7,528 |
| 8 | GuiLite | 7,426 |
| 9 | doctest | 6,060 |
| 10 | Magic Enum C++ | 5,116 |
| 11 | Crow | 3,489 |
| 12 | compile-time-regular-expressions | 3,437 |
| 13 | indicators | 3,062 |
| 14 | argparse | 2,851 |
| 15 | proxy | 2,373 |
| 16 | plog | 2,256 |
| 17 | FunctionalPlus | 2,154 |
| 18 | Nameof C++ | 2,116 |
| 19 | palanteer | 2,110 |
| 20 | cppzmq | 2,016 |
| 21 | PEGTL | 1,967 |
| 22 | uvw | 1,893 |
| 23 | mio | 1,740 |
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