Top 10 C++ Web Application Framework Projects

Oat++

21 7,410 8.4 C++

🌱Light and powerful C++ web framework for highly scalable and resource-efficient web application. It's zero-dependency and easy-portable.

Project mention: Experience using crow as web server | /r/cpp | 2023-11-06

I looked at oatpp and drogon, which are both great, but feel too high-level for my purposes. I tried drogon and got something working, but it feels like too much for my requirements, as in particular I'd like to slot in my choice of Json and message-body handling. C.f. the simple approach in Crow, which I easily understand and build on.

Crow

8 7,372 0.0 C++

Crow is very fast and easy to use C++ micro web framework (inspired by Python Flask)
InfluxDB

www.influxdata.com sponsored

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.
Pistache

4 3,077 6.9 C++

A high-performance REST toolkit written in C++
Crow

35 2,765 8.2 C++

A Fast and Easy to use microframework for the web. (by CrowCpp)

Project mention: Experience using crow as web server | /r/cpp | 2023-11-06

I'm investigating using C++ to build a REST server, and would love to know of people's experiences with Crow-- or whether they would recommend something else as a "medium-level" abstraction C++ web server. As background, I started off experimenting with Python/FastAPI, which is great, but there is too much friction to translate from pybind11-exported C++ objects to the format that FastAPI expects, and, of course, there are inherent performance limitations using Python, which could impact scaling up if the project were to be successful.

TreeFrog Framework

4 1,256 7.5 C++

TreeFrog Framework : High-speed C++ MVC Framework for Web Application
Cutelyst

9 881 9.6 C++

A C++ Web Framework built on top of Qt, using the simple approach of Catalyst (Perl) framework.
CppCMS

0 429 1.7 C++

CppCMS Framework
WorkOS

workos.com sponsored

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.
QDjango

0 260 0.0 C++

QDjango, a Qt-based C++ web framework
QSimpleScada

0 218 0.0 C++

Qt based simple SCADA framework, with dashboard, static and dynamic components
httpp

0 166 5.1 C++

Micro http server and client written in C++

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).