Description

Crow is a C++ framework for creating HTTP or Websocket web services. It uses routing similar to Python's Flask which makes it easy to use. It is also extremely fast, beating multiple existing C++ frameworks as well as non-C++ frameworks.

Features

• Easy Routing (similar to Flask).
• Type-safe handlers.
• Blazingly fast (see this benchmark and this benchmark).
• Built in JSON support.
• Mustache based templating library (crow::mustache).
• Header only library (single header file available).
• Middleware support for extensions.
• HTTP/1.1 and Websocket support.
• Multi-part request and response support.
• Uses modern C++ (11/14)

Still in development

• Async support
• HTTP/2 support

Documentation

Available here.

Installation

Run:

$ npm i crow.cxx

And then include crow.h as follows:

// main.cxx
#include "node_modules/crow.cxx/crow.h"

int main() { /* ... */ }

And then compile with clang++ or g++ as usual.

$ clang++ main.cxx  # or, use g++
$ g++     main.cxx

You may also use a simpler approach:

// main.cxx
#include <crow.h>

int main() { /* ... */ }

If you add the path node_modules/crow.cxx to your compiler's include paths.

$ clang++ -I./node_modules/crow.cxx main.cxx  # or, use g++
$ g++     -I./node_modules/crow.cxx main.cxx

[!WARNING]

If you are using Crow v0.3, then you have to put #define CROW_MAIN at the top of one and only one source file.

Examples

Hello World

#include "crow.h"

int main()
{
    crow::SimpleApp app;

    CROW_ROUTE(app, "/")([](){
        return "Hello world";
    });

    app.port(18080).multithreaded().run();
}

JSON Response

CROW_ROUTE(app, "/json")
([]{
    crow::json::wvalue x({{"message", "Hello, World!"}});
    x["message2"] = "Hello, World.. Again!";
    return x;
});

Arguments

CROW_ROUTE(app,"/hello/<int>")
([](int count){
    if (count > 100)
        return crow::response(400);
    std::ostringstream os;
    os << count << " bottles of beer!";
    return crow::response(os.str());
});

Handler arguments type check at compile time

// Compile error with message "Handler type is mismatched with URL parameters"
CROW_ROUTE(app,"/another/<int>")
([](int a, int b){
    return crow::response(500);
});

Handling JSON Requests

CROW_ROUTE(app, "/add_json")
.methods("POST"_method)
([](const crow::request& req){
    auto x = crow::json::load(req.body);
    if (!x)
        return crow::response(crow::status::BAD_REQUEST); // same as crow::response(400)
    int sum = x["a"].i()+x["b"].i();
    std::ostringstream os;
    os << sum;
    return crow::response{os.str()};
});

More examples can be found here.

Setting Up / Building

Available here.

Disclaimer

CrowCpp/Crow is a project based on ipkn/crow. Neither CrowCpp, it's members, or this project have been associated with, or endorsed or supported by ipkn (Jaeseung Ha) in any way. We do use ipkn/crow's source code under the BSD-3 clause license and sometimes refer to the public comments available on the github repository. But we do not in any way claim to be associated with or in contact with ipkn (Jaeseung Ha) regarding CrowCpp or CrowCpp/Crow

Attributions

Crow has incorporated the following libraries into its source.

http-parser (used for converting http strings to crow::request objects)

https://github.com/nodejs/http-parser

http_parser.c is based on src/http/ngx_http_parse.c from NGINX copyright
Igor Sysoev.

Additional changes are licensed under the same terms as NGINX and
copyright Joyent, Inc. and other Node contributors. All rights reserved.

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qs_parse (used for reading query string parameters)

https://github.com/bartgrantham/qs_parse

Copyright (c) 2010 Bart Grantham
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TinySHA1 (used during the websocket handshake, not for security)

https://github.com/mohaps/TinySHA1

TinySHA1 - a header only implementation of the SHA1 algorithm. Based on the
implementation in boost::uuid::details

Copyright (c) 2012-22 SAURAV MOHAPATRA [email protected]
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Catch2 (used only in unit tests, not part of the actual framework)

https://github.com/catchorg/Catch2

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