making a web server in c++?

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  1. Wt

    Wt, C++ Web Toolkit

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  3. cpp-httplib

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

    i mostly use https://github.com/yhirose/cpp-httplib as its easy and header only

  4. Crow

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

    If you really want to use C++, check out something like Crow, https://crowcpp.org/ and same thing, you can pass messages between the server and your application

  5. mongoose-cpp

    C++ binding for Mongoose

    BTW give a look to https://github.com/Gregwar/mongoose-cpp

  6. Oat++

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

    I've used OATPP ( https://github.com/oatpp/oatpp ) which worked nicely for setting up simple rest interfaces. Supports things like swagger & websockets out of the box. It's also on Conan which is nice if you use cmake. I can't speak to it's performance but it has about a 1mb binary size footprint.

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