Top 23 C++ Networking Projects
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Project mention: Microsoft and Qualcomm special deal coming to an end could mean Windows for M1 Macs | reddit.com/r/apple | 2021-11-23
Might I recommend Tailscale or Zerotier?
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I just pulled this: https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq and it was like 80k lines of code.
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proxygen claims to support all 3, although I'm still not sure if it's an actual library or just an interface.
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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.
Assuming you want to make a REST API check this out: https://github.com/Microsoft/cpprestsdk
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Project mention: WFKafkaClient: A simple C++ asynchronous Kafka client | news.ycombinator.com | 2021-10-20
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I went with cpp-httplib instead, also partially because it lets me seperate the cpp from the h header only library (I despise this trend of header only libraries blowing up compile times). But now that crowcpp is getting new manpower behind it, I will seriously consider it, partially because handles url arguments better.
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Scout APM
Scout APM: A developer's best friend. Try free for 14-days. Scout APM uses tracing logic that ties bottlenecks to source code so you know the exact line of code causing performance issues and can get back to building a great product faster.
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GameNetworkingSockets
Reliable & unreliable messages over UDP. Robust message fragmentation & reassembly. P2P networking / NAT traversal. Encryption.
Project mention: Which one of these plans should i take to make my game multiplayer? | reddit.com/r/learnprogramming | 2021-11-28https://github.com/ValveSoftware/GameNetworkingSockets Works with AND without Steamworks.
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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.
This is why I generally prefer Threadpools, or a producer-consumer pattern. Both these patterns require a queue that contains the jobs or units of work. Worker threads will continually try to read items from such a queue and process the item. There are some libraries that offer threadsafe queue's and/or threadpools, such as poco, QT or boost, but it's actually fairly simple to implement your own, using only the STL. So let's implement one now!
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Project mention: How and where I can learn about Web sockets, APIs, Wrappers to connect with my C++ code? | reddit.com/r/cpp_questions | 2021-04-19
Learning how to use this library is probably your best bet: https://github.com/zaphoyd/websocketpp
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It's got several C++ wrappers if you prefer those, my favourite is C++ requests
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Project mention: N64 Games Only Allow 1 Controller Online | reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch | 2021-10-27
When you play any kind of real-time online multiplayer game, it is physically impossible for all players to have the same view of the world. As a result, approximations have to be made, for example by extrapolating other player positions. There is plenty of research on this subject, and most modern games do a pretty good job. But when you add a second local player, things get a lot more complicated.
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In this section, I'll use an open-source HTTP client named Nghttp2 for testing the server.
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Project mention: Suggestions for a minimal and simple http client library? | reddit.com/r/cpp_questions | 2021-11-02
Boost Beast?
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evpp
A modern C++ network library for developing high performance network services in TCP/UDP/HTTP protocols.
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cpp-netlib
The C++ Network Library Project -- cross-platform, standards compliant networking library.
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Silicon
A high performance, middleware oriented C++14 http web framework please use matt-42/lithium instead
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PcapPlusPlus
PcapPlusPlus is a multiplatform C++ library for capturing, parsing and crafting of network packets. It is designed to be efficient, powerful and easy to use. It provides C++ wrappers for the most popular packet processing engines such as libpcap, WinPcap, DPDK and PF_RING.
Project mention: PcapPlusPlus v21.11 released - C++ library for capturing and analyzing network packets | reddit.com/r/coolgithubprojects | 2021-11-10 -
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Restbed
Corvusoft's Restbed framework brings asynchronous RESTful functionality to C++14 applications.
Project mention: What does modern (good) API development look like and what are the best tools to use? | reddit.com/r/AskProgramming | 2021-09-02Contrary to the direction most people go, I've been writing REST APIs as C++ servers using two different fairly full featured C++ REST frameworks: first using https://github.com/Corvusoft/restbed and more lately using https://github.com/Stiffstream/restinio. These can be peers with any other server, while living on embedded and/or high compute devices for video encode/decode/analysis, deployed ML models, encryption for and remote process communications, model data collection and similar expensive or in-field processing. In both high compute and in-field-no-internet situations creating REST APIs in C++ enables speed and system controls not present in the majority of the mainstream REST frameworks. It's a big world, and here comes ubiquitous high compute...
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RESTinio
Cross-platform, efficient, customizable, and robust asynchronous HTTP/WebSocket server C++14 library with the right balance between performance and ease of use
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Sorry, no idea. Maybe it's possible with Roc? if the drivers mentioned in the roc-send man page don't require the PulseAudio modules then maybe it's possible, and there's also support for ALSA.
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- Microsoft and Qualcomm special deal coming to an end could mean Windows for M1 Macs
- "VPN" for home internet
Index
What are some of the best open-source Networking projects in C++? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Muduo | 10,504 |
| 2 | ZeroTier | 7,666 |
| 3 | ZeroMQ | 7,370 |
| 4 | Proxygen | 7,337 |
| 5 | C++ REST SDK | 6,609 |
| 6 | C++ Workflow | 6,350 |
| 7 | cpp-httplib | 6,048 |
| 8 | GameNetworkingSockets | 5,761 |
| 9 | POCO | 5,701 |
| 10 | WebSocket++ | 5,143 |
| 11 | cpr | 4,130 |
| 12 | Game-Networking-Resources | 4,128 |
| 13 | nghttp2 | 3,848 |
| 14 | Boost.Beast | 3,213 |
| 15 | evpp | 2,831 |
| 16 | cpp-netlib | 1,862 |
| 17 | Silicon | 1,719 |
| 18 | PcapPlusPlus | 1,663 |
| 19 | libquic | 1,561 |
| 20 | Restbed | 1,542 |
| 21 | MongoDB C++ Driver | 852 |
| 22 | RESTinio | 791 |
| 23 | roc-toolkit | 738 |
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