Top 21 C++ Websocket Projects

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1. µWebSockets

   1 42 17,859 8.7 C++

   Simple, secure & standards compliant web server for the most demanding of applications

   

   Project mention: An Analysis of the Performance of WebSockets in Various Programming Languages | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-22

   NodeJS beating C++ in these benchmarks makes me suspect the methodology / server setup since the NodeJS library[0] used is just a wrapper around the C++ library[1].

   [0]: https://github.com/uNetworking/uWebSockets.js

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3. uWebSockets.js

   2 36 8,418 9.1 C++

   μWebSockets for Node.js back-ends :metal:

   

   Project mention: Uwebsockets.js | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-04

4. C++ REST SDK

   3 13 8,135 2.6 C++

   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.

   

5. Boost.Beast

   4 11 4,523 8.4 C++

   HTTP and WebSocket built on Boost.Asio in C++11

   

6. arduinoWebSockets

   5 11 1,957 6.9 C++

   arduinoWebSockets

   

7. RESTinio

   6 14 1,214 5.8 C++

   Cross-platform, efficient, customizable, and robust asynchronous HTTP(S)/WebSocket server C++ library with the right balance between performance and ease of use

   

8. ESPUI

   7 2 985 4.2 C++

   A simple web user interface library for ESP32 and ESP8266

   

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   InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.

   

10. Seasocks

    8 0 748 3.5 C++

    Simple, small, C++ embeddable webserver with WebSockets support

    

11. IXWebSocket

    9 4 594 4.6 C++

    websocket and http client and server library, with TLS support and very few dependencies

    

12. ArduinoWebsockets

    10 2 503 4.5 C++

    A library for writing modern websockets applications with Arduino (ESP8266 and ESP32) (by gilmaimon)

    

13. imgui-ws

    11 1 471 2.4 C++

    Dear ImGui over WebSockets

    

14. packio

    12 2 144 3.2 C++

    An asynchronous msgpack-RPC and JSON-RPC library built on top of Boost.Asio.

    

15. ESP32-http-websocket

    13 1 78 0.0 C++

    ESP32 + HTTP server + websockets + Bootstrap + Husarnet. A simple project template showing how to use those technologies to create a fast, pretty and secure web UI hosted on ESP32. Works in LAN and over the internet. Written using Arduino framework.

    

16. openwebtorrent-tracker

    14 3 76 1.8 C++

    Fast and simple Webtorrent tracker implementation in C++

    

17. malloy

    15 1 74 8.2 C++

    A cross-platform C++20 library providing embeddable server & client components for HTTP and WebSocket. (by Tectu)

    

18. ESP8266-Websockets-LED

    16 2 67 6.2 C++

    Real-time addressable LED strip (ws2811/ws2812/ws2812b) control using ESP8266 via web interface.

    

19. WebSocket

    17 1 30 1.8 C++

    A lightweight RFC 6455 (Web Socket) implementation for Qt5 & Qt6 (C++) (by cculianu)

    

20. btc-ticker-esp8266

    18 1 21 0.0 C++

    realtime bitcoin price on 7 segment display with arduino on esp8266

    

21. Arduino_BabyMonitor

    19 3 13 0.0 C++

    A sound sensing system using NodeMCUs and Websockets

    

22. PetCam

    20 1 12 8.1 C++

    A real-time pet camera application that allows users to remotely monitor and interact with their pets using a web browser, with video streamed from a designated client device to a central server and displayed on a dedicated viewing page.

    

    Project mention: Build Your Own Pet Monitoring System – A DIY Project with ESP32-S3 and WebRTC | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-02-11

23. simple_web_game_server

    21 2 7 5.9 C++

    A C++ library for creating authenticated scalable backends for multiplayer web games.

    

24. SaaSHub

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• Uwebsockets.js

  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Mar 2025

• I'm open-sourcing my game engine

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• uWebSockets.js

  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Oct 2023

• Ask HN: How do you handle WebSocket connections reconnect problem?

  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Jun 2023

• Recommendations for a CPP HTTP server which supports changing max threads at run time.

  1 project | /r/cpp | 5 Jun 2023

• What's the hot tech stack these days?

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• I have done a full benchmark of a POST REST API on my computer: Node.js vs Fastify vs Express.js vs Deno vs Bun vs GO. Node.js is used WITH and WITHOUT clustering on 6-core I7 processor

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