Marisa
A lightening fast, express-like C++ web server framework
Features
- Easy to use
- High efficiency
- Multithreaded event-based I/O handling
- Low memory footprint
- Built-in SSL/TLS & unix socket support
- Streamed operations, useful for a big POST
- Operations in middlewares can be blocking or nonblocking
- Will not claim to let people love programming again
- ...and more
Usage
See the documentation. (WIP)
Also remember to have a look at the examples in Examples directory. Especially hello_lambda.cpp.
Benchmarks
See benchmarks.
Build
Dependencies
- C++17 compatible compiler and runtime
- zlib
- boost_system
Compile
Nearly all my projects use CMake. It's very simple:
cd Source
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j `nproc`
ToDo
- Websocket support
- HTTP2 support (unlikely in near future)
Caveats
The project is in alpha state. It's not recommended to use in production environments.
History & Story
The name "Marisa" is derived from a Touhou Project character, who rides a broom and flies fast.
The idea is based on a plain C HTTP server project I was working on when I was at school. It was called "Marisa" since then. It worked like PHP, but every webpage is a shared library (.so/.dll).
Time flies. Half a year ago, in a conversation about teamwork, my boss (at that time) told me:
C++ is not suitable for writing business code.
I totally don't agree with this.
But anyway, finally they decided to use some programming language that doesn't have exceptions, has garbage collection, and enters kernel three times a row in order to complete a single sleep(). In my opinion, this is totally a disaster for large projects.
Eventually, I decided to restart this project.
It's 2019 now, the PHP style is pretty outdated, while express-like style works a better way. So this is a complete redesign.
Recently some Google guy told me:
Labor cost of one software engineer worths cost of 100TB of RAM sticks.
I feel a bit meh.
We need more practise in efficient computing, at least for reducing carbon emission. Lol.