REST APIs using C++. (Is this even done much?)

1. Crow

   1 35 3,799 8.9 C++

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

   

   How about Crow?

2. InfluxDB

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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.

   

3. DPP

   2 5 1,175 9.6 C++

   C++ Discord API Bot Library - D++ is Lightweight and scalable for small and huge bots!

   

   Sure, the D++ Discord bot library is a good example of an implementation of REST in C++. I wouldn't say it's particularly modern as it doesn't make a lot of use of modern C++ features such as constexpr, string_view and so on, but it's not too bad.

4. Pistache

   3 4 3,316 9.6 C++

   A high-performance REST toolkit written in C++

   

5. Oat++

   4 24 8,182 7.3 C++

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

   

   Lots of other options have been mentioned, but I'll throw Oat++ into the mix. I used it for this purpose and it was reasonably painless.

6. cpp-httplib

   5 38 14,145 9.4 C++

   A C++ header-only HTTP/HTTPS server and client library

   

   I use this all the time to expose an admin rest interface to my public installations.

7. restc-cpp

   6 5 632 7.0 C++

   Modern C++ REST Client library

   

   Restc-cpp: Client library using asio stackfull coroutines. It also handles serialization to and from Json automatically if the C++ classes are declared with boost::fusion.

8. RESTinCurl

   7 3 30 0.0 C++

   Modern C++ header only library wrapper around libcurl

   

   RESTinCurl: Wrapper over libcurl for projects not using boost/asio, typically for Android and IOS use-cases (but I have used it in servers as well). Besides wrapping the library, it also contains the code to handle asynchronous operations with libcurl.

9. CodeRabbit

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10. yahat-cpp

    8 2 8 8.0 C++

    Yet Another Http API Thing - A trivial HTTP server for simple REST API's in C++ projects

    

    Yahat-cpp: Simple HTTP/API server library for use in C++ micro-services. This was just some code that kept evolving inside various projects, so I distilled it to a separate project to make it simpler to maintain. For an example of a real server using it, you cal look at nsblast, a new DNS server I'm implementing.

11. nsblast

    9 5 3 4.3 HTML

    Massively scalable authorative DNS server

    

    Yahat-cpp: Simple HTTP/API server library for use in C++ micro-services. This was just some code that kept evolving inside various projects, so I distilled it to a separate project to make it simpler to maintain. For an example of a real server using it, you cal look at nsblast, a new DNS server I'm implementing.

12. beauty

    10 1 0 2.8

    Experimental general HTTP 1.1 and 2 server and client library using C++20. (by jgaa)

    

    I've been planning/dreaming up a new project that contain both (high level) server and client code, offering asio continuations, and C++20 co-routine support (via asio and/or the new C++ network library that may arrive one day). The goal is to provide something that makes it simple to use HTTP/ REST and gRPC from C++, supporting HTTP 1.1 to 3.0. Personally I find boost.Beast hard to use correctly. Also, it lacks support for HTTP 2 and 3. The placeholder for this project is beauty ;)

13. C++ REST SDK

    11 13 8,141 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.

    

    CppRestSDK is deprecated.

14. lithium

    12 4 1,313 4.2 C++

    Easy to use C++17 HTTP Server with no compromise on performances. https://matt-42.github.io/lithium (by matt-42)

    

    You know what is curious? There is a lib with the same name of your user similar to httplib: https://matt-42.github.io/lithium/

15. userver

    13 4 2,587 9.9 C++

    Production-ready C++ Asynchronous Framework with rich functionality

    

    I think userver (https://userver.tech/) is good way for you. 🐙 userver is the modern open source asynchronous framework with a rich set of abstractions for fast and comfortable creation of C++ microservices, services and utilities.

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