1.cesanta / mongoose
Embedded web server, with TCP/IP network stack, MQTT and Websocket
+166 stars
from 12,958 · score 5.12
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2.openresty / openresty
High Performance Web Platform Based on Nginx and LuaJIT
+154 stars
from 13,961 · score 5.04
3.benoitc / gunicorn
gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX, fast clients and sleepy applications.
- http-server
- http
- python
- wsgi-server
- wsgi
+107 stars
from 10,613 · score 4.68
+54 stars
from 3,423 · score 4.01
5.warmcat / libwebsockets
canonical libwebsockets.org networking library
- websockets
- c-library
- portable-library
- client-server
- lightweight
- libwebsockets
- +9 more
+53 stars
from 5,298 · score 3.99
6.eclipse-vertx / vert.x
Vert.x is a tool-kit for building reactive applications on the JVM
+35 stars
from 14,647 · score 3.58
7.meta / proxygen
A collection of C++ HTTP libraries including an easy to use HTTP server.
+25 stars
from 8,355 · score 3.26
8.Stiffstream / restinio
Cross-platform, efficient, customizable, and robust asynchronous HTTP(S)/WebSocket server C++ library with the right balance between performance and ease of use
- cpp
- cplusplus
- http-server
- websockets
- linux
- windows
- +6 more
+14 stars
from 1,297 · score 2.71
+10 stars
from 3,542 · score 2.40
10.robbiehanson / CocoaHTTPServer
A small, lightweight, embeddable HTTP server for Mac OS X or iOS applications
+9 stars
from 5,594 · score 2.30
+9 stars
from 1,591 · score 2.30
12.ysbaddaden / http2
HTTP/2 Protocol Implementation for the Crystal Language
+8 stars
from 106 · score 2.20
13.mirage / ocaml-cohttp
An OCaml library for HTTP clients and servers using Lwt or Async
- ocaml
- http
- http-client
- lwt
- unix
+7 stars
from 772 · score 2.08
14.davidmoreno / onion
C library to create simple HTTP servers and Web Applications.
+4 stars
from 2,082 · score 1.61
15.mochi / mochiweb
MochiWeb is an Erlang library for building lightweight HTTP servers.
+3 stars
from 1,886 · score 1.39
16.inhabitedtype / httpaf
A high performance, memory efficient, and scalable web server written in OCaml
- ocaml
- http
+3 stars
from 535 · score 1.39
+1 stars
from 2,274 · score 0.69
18.unosquare / embedioArchived
A tiny, cross-platform, module based web server for .NET
- mono
- webserver
- websocket
- dotnet
- dotnetcore
- websockets
- +13 more
+1 stars
from 1,577 · score 0.69